By Sage Lancaster | Project Leader
In March Patricia Parker MBE Kids for Kids Founder had Programme Meetings with our small team from Darfur and heard their firsthand report what families are facing our of sight of the world in remote villages. Starvation is facing many families. You will know from our previous report that there is famine in Darfur because the drought has meant that crops have failed. It turns out that only a few villages in the far north have at least some harvest to rely on for food this summer - the majority face not just a failed harvest - and families eat what they grow - but even the small amount of savings at least some families have are now worth almost nothing. Inflation is over 40% in Darfur (official figure for Sudan as a whole is 37%) and the Sudanese pound has been revalued to be worth less than a third of what it was at the beginning of the year. How can families survive?
What can we do to help?
Patricia and the team put together a plan for addressing, within practical means, the food shortage in Kids for Kids' villages. We will provide 1 sack of seed (millet or sorghum) plus 10 bundles of fodder for the animals initially for 3,000 families each in the worst hit of our villages. This should be sufficient for 3 months for a family of 6. If the rains come in June as would be normal, there should then be hope of a new harvest.
We will also provide 1 sack of seed for each family to plant. A huge number of families have had no alternative but to eat the seed which they need for planting. Without help they will have nothing to plant for next year, and we must ensure that our help is sustainable.
Please can you help us fund this emergency food and seed? We must do all we can to help families survive until the next rains.
We are starting with 3,000 families but there may be many more who need our help. We have ordered these emergency provisions already but we do have not raised funds for such emergency aid. Although we have planned further sustainable projects for remote villages, we will delay implementation of those items that are not urgently needed, in case more emergency help is needed. We must have reserved funds for those suffering on such a severe level. This is how serious the situation is.
You know we are not an emergency organization, so please be reassured that this is one of our rare appeals in reaction to a crisis to which no one else is responding.
As always we are grateful for all your support, and especially those who were able to donate during the Little by Little Campaign to ensure your help went farther. You make our work possible.
By Sage Lancaster | Project Leader
By Sage Lancaster | Project Leader
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