Goats and Donkeys Transform Lives in Darfur

Children are starving in the villages but no one is helping.  Kids for Kids is continuing to do everything possible to prevent people from forgetting Darfur.  There are so many other regions in the world which face tragedy, but something we can say with certainty, is that the help you have enabled us to give to children in remote villages, is helping us to transform their lives.

Last year there were eighteen villages on our shortlist, when we were having to decide which five we would be able to adopt in 2014.  It is heart-breaking to think of the thirteen villages that are desperate for our help but that we are unable to help yet.  Of course, the more support we receive, the more villages we can adopt.  To adopt five, instead of our normal three, is a significant difference for 2014.  The five villages chosen have been selected using a detailed criteria and all must adhere to our reporting requirements so that we can be sure that our help is having the required impact. It is these simple grassroots preventive measures that are the key to so much of what we do.  Next month for example, paravets and first aid workers will start their training.  The result will be small health problems, in both animals and humans, prevented in many cases from becoming more serious. Anything we can do to help people so far away from assistance makes a difference. 

Our most significant project remains our Goat Loan.  To think of one goat potentially able to help children and their families for years to come - as it's kids get passed on to other families and then others two years on, - is an incredibly heart-warming thought. Our Goat Loan continues to be hailed as the 'best microfinance project in Darfur'.  This month (until 20 July 2014 or until funds run out), any donations made to this project (up to the value of £1,000) will be doubled by Global Giving UK@ http://www.globalgiving.co.uk/projects/darfur-goats-and-donkeys/.  This is an incredible opportunity to help even more children and we would be delighted if you could take this opportunity to donate during this period. So please dig deep and "Buy one goat and give another one free"!

Thank you for remembering Darfur.

Thank you for subscribing to our reports and for wanting to help the forgotten children of Darfur.

Sadly, these are ghastly times in Darfur as the region has been completely forgotten by the world. The world's media is focussing on the problems and hunger in South Sudan.  The tragedy is that in the absence of virtually all Aid Agencies and their publicity machines, plus the impossibility of any journalist visiting, the news of Darfur is just not getting out.  People are reporting famine in South Sudan yet ignored UNICEF’s warning that 80,000 children are already severely malnourished in Darfur.  Without medical help, they will die and the chance of a new harvest is not for many months so this is just the beginning

Today, Kids for Kids is transforming the lives of children in 70 villages, in total 310,000 villagers now benefit from our projects. Villagers tell us what will help, and we teach them how to run the projects themselves to ensure they last. Children need long term help if their lives are to be transformed. Your support has enabled us to provide our simple grassroots projects that help give people a chance to survive, and more importantly, a chance for their children in the future.  But even more need our help.  Our donkeys give families a chance of navigating the desert to either reach the markets or to transport water, their children to school (where possible) and the sick to hospital.

Our little goats continue to transform the lives of children.  Just one cup of fresh goats milk gives children the nutrients that they need to survive and can help them to fight malnutrition.  A flock of six goats can transform the lives of a whole family and in two years time, their goats 'kids' can help more families and whole communities over time.  One goat costs just £38 which is small price to pay for a child's life.  If you can help, please give the gift of a goat today.

Thank you.