By Patricia Parker MBE | Founder
Each year we watch for the rains in Darfur. Before they come, fires often sweep through villages from sparks from kitchen fires, causing devastation because everything is at its most dry and brittle. Then the rains come, and sometimes with such ferocity that there are flash floods. In fact, 84 goats were drowned two years ago in our villages.
This year, four children drowned in a hole left where people had dug out sand to make bricks. You would have thought that this rush of water would mean that worries for next year's harvest had a chance. But not so. Millet, the staple crop, the stalks of which are used for hut walls and for fences, takes three months to mature. In North Darfur this year, the rains have been late. A successful millet harvest is unlikely. This means farmers need sorghum seed if they are to have a chance of having sufficient food for their families next year, but few have. The thought of another year when children die from starvation, is horrific. I have been asked if Kids for Kids could provide seeds for the hardest hit villages in the north of Darfur. My aim is to provide 3kgs each per family. There are hundreds of families we should help with seed to plant, let alone their need for water, goats, health care and everything else. The market price in Darfur at the moment is £1.75 a kilo, plus transport. Please can you add as many kilos as possible of sorghum seed to your Christmas list?
By Debbie Hoods | Project Assistant
By D Hoods | Charity Assistant
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