Goats and Donkeys Transform Lives in Darfur

We are being asked if we are able to help, amidst the fighting, or should people wait to support us.  

Please do not wait.   We need to be ready to help the minute it is possible.   Waiting will endanger children’s lives.

We can understand the concerns – that whatever is provided might not reach where it should, or perhaps even be destroyed, or stolen. 

But luckily, our villages are not targeted because of what we provide - because all of our projects are low key.

Goats, donkeys and chickens are life-saving to our families in Darfur but they are not high-status animals like camels, horses, cows and sheep.  

Similarly, farm tools, mosquito nets, blankets, transform children's lives, but are not wanted by soldiers. 

What has been happening instead is that people have been moving to our villages because they know they will have a better chance of survival.

So we are determined to adopt more villages as soon as we possibly can – but we need your help to do so.

For each village we adopt, we will give the poorest families 5 Goats each and provide Donkeys to carry heavy loads.

So we need your help in providing as many Goats & Donkeys as possible!

Please will you consider donating to our Animal projects to help us achieve our goal and be able to adopt another 5 villages?

Please don't wait. Your donations will be sure to reach those in dire need and make a difference just when they need them most.

Thank you so much.

Just look at these beautiful photos of delighted women with their new donkeys. Donkeys that will change their lives, all thanks to you!

These ladies, living in the rural villages we adopted last year - Hillat Sabil, Hillat Um Gadeer and Kudeil - have been chosen to receive a local breed donkey each - and this is the day they first received them. 

Can you imagine what their new donkey means to each one of them?

These villages are located in one of the most deprived regions in the world. Isolated from civilisation, thousands of miles away from the regional capital of Sudan, Khartoum, there are no roads, no infrastructure.

In the absence of roads, people must walk. For food, clean water, and firewood.

A family has to walk miles every day, just to survive. And return home with heavy loads.

Just imagine how time-consuming and backbreaking this must be!

A donkey can change all this.

A donkey takes people to collect water, firewood, to go to market, to take people the many miles to hospital. Donkeys take children to school, they carry the old, the weak and the disabled.

Donkeys make life possible - just.

With the current situation in Darfur, donkeys are needed more than ever to ensure the quickest passage of children and their families to food, water and safety.

Please will you consider donating a donkey to help families reach the most basic of necessities and save lives in Darfur?