By Sage Lancaster | Fundraising and Outreach Coordinator
For almost 20 years Kids for Kids has been funding the training of midwives in Darfur for remote villages where there is no healthcare whatsoever. Can you imagine, childbirth with no trained help? Women for decades have been submitted to FGM – Female Genital Mutilation – which can cause serious life-threatening complications when they give birth. Our midwives have been teaching the dangers of FGM and the practice has been dying out in our 100 villages. Now there is the wonderful news that at last in Sudan the newly formed Council of Ministers – created after the overthrow of Omer Bashir last year – have approved a law that would mean up to three years in prison for anyone carrying out FGM. This must still be approved by the Sovereign Council, but it seems likely to become law. This move by the Government to criminalize the practice is a major step for women’s health, making the jobs of our midwives easier. It will take time to completely eradicate the practice; as the United Nations say, 87% of women in Sudan today have undergone FGM, with girls usually cut between the ages of five and 14. We are hugely grateful to you all for supporting our midwives and thus enabling us to save thousands of girls from this dangerous practice.
More Midwives Needed: We are very excited that 30 midwife trainees from villages we adopted in 2018 and 2019 have been selected to be trained by El Fasher Health Academy Staff! The training was due to start in the next two months; however we will keep you updated about this because El Fasher is currently in lockdown as there have been cases of COVID-19 confirmed last week in Darfur. Soon there will be 30 more professionals keeping women and babies safe. Please will you continue to support this life-saving project and help us train these midwives? If we succeed, we hope to raise enough to train a further 40 midwives this year.
Please Note: We are desperate to prevent the virus from reaching villages, as healthcare is so limited people will stand little chance against it. Please visit the Kids for Kids website to learn more about what you can do to help us, and please consider supporting our Urgent Appeal for Soap to Combat COVID-19 on GlobalGiving. Just £20/$25 will provide enough soap for ten families enabling people to wash properly and give them a better chance against the virus. Thank you.
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