Paint and Picnic Day
Join us for a Paint and Picnic Day in Surrey to raise funds for the children of Darfur, Sudan! This day is open to anybody who loves to sketch and paint, any ability, any paint medium!
Fly Fishing for Emergency Funds!
This year’s annual Kids for Kids’ Executive Fly Fishing Day will take place at Park Lake, Albury on Saturday 12th October. Purchase your ticket now! Every single pound profit will help us provide basic essentials to children who are in desperate need. The situation in Darfur has exacerbated an already dire situation where shortages across the country have led to many families struggling to feed their children. In Darfur, conditions were already worse than we have ever known. Emergency funding is essential to help provide for thousands of families in desperate need of food, water, shelter and medical care. By joining us on our fishing day out this year, you can help transform the lives of families in great need. Not to mention, enjoy a magnificent day at Park Lake, which is utterly beautiful – and ours for the day! The Duke of Northumberland’s private lake provides the perfect day out for the family, or to entertain your clients – beginners and experience fisherman alike are welcome! The secluded lake will be stocked with trout and if you have never Read more…
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Our “Trees of Life” really do Save Lives!
With Darfur being at the forefront of global warming and temperatures soaring to over 50 degrees in the summer months, all surface water evaporates by February each year, leaving the land parched and scorched. Land that was green with trees and water early last century is now a desert for most of the year. For the past 17 years, Kids for Kids has been planting drought-resistant trees in an effort to improve the environment for the long-term and hold back the Sahara which is creeping south inexorably. In 2007 we were the first organization to experiment with reintroducing the Baobab tree to Darfur. Baobabs now transform the landscape in our villages and save the lives of starving children. Baobabs can live up to 5,000 years, reach up to 30 metres high and grow up to an enormous 50 metres in circumference. They can provide shelter, food and water for families and their animals, and during the rainy season, they absorb and store water in their vast trunks, enabling them to produce a nutrient-dense fruit in the dry season when Read more…
Get Goat Fit on Box Hill – with Walking Women!
Walking Women are offering a series of Get Goat Fit day walks and are very kindly donating a percentage of every day walk to Kids for Kids so we can provide emergency aid for women in Sudan. Box Hill , Surrey, is a great way to do a long walk of 4 – 6 hours with a small climb to reach the top with its lovely view across the Downs and even out to sea on a clear day. Come and join us to get, or stay, Goat Fit! SUMMARY Date: Saturday 22nd June Guide: Carla Khouri Walking Grade: Get Goat Fit. This is a walk for those who would like a hill walk to stretch your legs and try a steady climb. The Box Hill Hike is 8 miles/ 12.8km and could take between 4 and 6 hours. The highest point is 224m. This is a lovely varied walk. Meeting Point:10.30am at Dorking Station to meet your guide Carla. Trains go directly from London Waterloo or London Victoria to Dorking Main Station 50 minutes. There is spacious parking at the station which Read more…
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From Darfur to Downing Street – Celebrating 23 Years Changing Lives
Kids for Kids, the only charity dedicated to transforming the lives of children in Darfur, Sudan, marked its 23rd birthday with a special celebration at No. 11 Downing Street, hosted by The Rt Hon Mr Jeremy Hunt MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Thursday 7th March 2024. Hunt opened the celebration, which welcomed long-term supporters of the charity, by saying: “This is an amazing and wonderful cause. I was incredibly impressed by Kids for Kids and I want to thank you all for your commitment to it and the incredible difference you are making to the lives of children in and around Darfur. It is absolutely incredible”. Long-standing Patron of Kids for Kids, Dame Joanna Lumley DCMG FRGS was guest of honour at the event and took to the floor to say just why she is such a firm believer in the charity. “Kids for Kids, that sounds easy. Give kids so that they will produce milk, that means that children can be nourished, that means that yoghurt can be sold, that means that little families can stay together. But Read more…
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Could you Dance for Darfur?
Could you Dance for the children of Darfur this year and have some FUN with FUN-draising? We recently received this wonderful video from one of our Kindergartens – do take a look, it is heart-warming! And it goes to show that children are still able to dance in our Kindergartens, despite the war! Isn’t that incredible? So we thought – why don’t we all Dance for Darfur this year?? How can you help? Could you hold a Show for us this Summer? We would be so grateful if you could organise a show for the friends and family of your students and donate the proceeds to help us save the lives of the Children in Darfur. Perhaps you could raise enough for five Goats for a family (£250), a Midwife to save babies’ lives (£2,000), a Handpump to provide clean water (£6,500) or even a Kindergarten so children can gain an education & dream of a future out of poverty (£20,000)? Sell drinks & snacks for Donations? Are you already organising a show? Please could you ask for donations for Read more…
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Give us the best Birthday Present this International Women’s Day
This International Women’s Day is our 23rd birthday! To help celebrate our 23rd birthday on 8th March 2024 and support Mothers, Aunts, Grandmothers and young girls in Darfur, so desperately struggling in heart-breaking conditions, please will you give a gift that will change their lives for good – on International Women’s Day? What can I donate to really help save lives? By donating a Goat this International Women’s Day you will be helping a mother in Darfur to feed her starving children and help her to earn a living for her family. A Goat allows a mother to protect her children from starvation by giving them nutritious milk and provides the opportunity for her to earn an income by selling excess milk and yoghurt. For the first time, a mother will be able to influence her family’s future. By donating to our Water projects, you will help mother’s give clean, safe water to their parched children. No longer will they have to risk their lives on the long treacherous walk for water. Or donate to our Emergency Fund, whatever you Read more…
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Darfur: the news no one wants to hear
This is one of the hardest updates I have had to write in all the 23 years since my son Alastair and I first went to Darfur in 2001. We were so shocked at seeing the conditions in which children were living then that we knew we had to find a way to improve their lives with projects that would transform life long term. So many aid agencies provide help that leaves no trace. We were determined to be different. The projects we devised, by working directly with the communities, have lifted individual families out of abject poverty and helped to strengthen whole communities over the years. I could not have known how invaluable our projects would become. Despite years and years of conflict, massive inflation and turbulence, the world has continued to look away as even worse violence erupts across the entire country. Since the overthrow of the transitional civilian Government and its hope for democracy, the subsequent violence has decimated Sudan, and nowhere worse than in Darfur. Today the regional capital of North Darfur, El Fasher itself, is Read more…
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Welcome to new Patron, Sir David Suchet CBE
Sir David Suchet CBE has been a supporter of Kids for Kids since 2017, after appearing as a Guest Reader at our Candlelit Christmas Concert, and we are delighted to now welcome him as an esteemed Patron in 2024. Sir David Suchet CBE is an English actor known for his work on stage and in television. He has received international acclaim and recognition following his performance as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot (1989-2013), has portrayed Edward Teller in the television serial Oppenheimer (1980) and received the RTS and BPG awards for his performance as Augustus Melmotte in the British serial The Way We Live Now (2001). Thank you so much for all your support, Sir David, it is wonderful to have you as part of the team saving lives of children and their families in Darfur.
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Happy News from Darfur at Last!
Despite the ongoing war in Sudan and more than 14 million children in dire need, we have just received this wonderful video of children at the Kids for Kids’ Kindergarten in Azargarfa, a village we adopted in 2004, celebrating Independence Day with their friends and families! This Kindergarten was donated by the City of London School back in 2014 – and just look how their help really is continuing to make an enormous difference! This is an amazing sight and proof that life is managing to continue in our Kids for Kids’ Villages thanks to our sustainable projects. Could you also change children’s lives like this? Please do give whatever you can to our Education projects and give children hope of a future out of poverty.
