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DECEMBER 2009

Drought is causing hardship already in Darfur - yet the world is ignoring the conditions in which children are living. The message from Founder of Kids for Kids Patricia Parker: "Don't wait until it is too late - do something right now!"

Kids for Kids is calling for help to provide water - handpumps and repairs to handpumps standing idle because villagers do not have the money for spare parts - and for donkeys. "If you have a donkey you can fetch twice as much water, twice as quickly, and travel twice as far" is the message from Patricia.

 

FEBRUARY 2009

The Trustees of KIDS FOR KIDS heard recently that implementing agents they had commissioned to install handpumps for remote villages, had been expelled from Sudan for breaking the law. "This is a tragedy, not only for us, but for the countless children these pumps should be helping." said Chairman of Trustees, Patricia Parker. "Thankfully TNM reported that they had repaired 30 pumps for us before they left Darfur, and I am awaiting their final report. This is a blow for all INGOs in Sudan."

27th February 2009

Drought in Darfur
29 December 2009

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TV Star accepts invitation to be Patron
11 December 2009

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NEW FILM A HIT - HOPE IN A TIME OF CONFLICT is the message
1 December 2008

Film gives unique glimpse of life in villages, beyond the camps.
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US FILM A DISAPPOINTMENT
8 July 2008

fILM ON DARFUR produced by WNET in America turns out to be heavily biased. The Trustees of KIDS FOR KIDS were convinced by the Producer of the American film (a British Company called MayaVision introduced to them by the Sudanese Embassy in London) that they would make a film which would show a balanced picture of life in Darfur. Two thirds of the population are still clinging to their lives in the camps - yet virtually no aid reaches them despite often desperate need. Children are born into families where parents have the same ambitions as the rest of the world. To be able to clothe, feed them, make sure they have access to health care -and are educated. Yet these ambitions are beyond the wildest dreams for many families in Darfur - where even the very basic .... the need for water is denied. The only picture that the world has of Darfur is of life in the camps - and our hope was that WNET would show how help can be given to these families out of sight and out of mind. It was not to be. This was a biased film, showing the world once again, one side of the Darfur story, ignoring the plight of so many families beyond the eye of the camera.

NEWSPAPER ANNOUNCEMENT IN KHARTOUM PAPERS
31 December 2006

KIDS FOR KIDS sends greetings to all its supporters in Sudan at EID.
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