By Charlotte Allum | Fundraising and Outreach Coordinator
This weekend the United Kingdom has just celebrated the Coronation of HRH King Charles III.
King Charles III is known as a keen gardener as well as a wonderful artist.
You may not know that, before coming to the throne of Great Britain, King Charles III took part in a one-off and unique art auction arranged by Kid for Kids in 2012 to raise money for families in Darfur, Sudan.
By donating one of his lithographs to the ‘Drawn to Darfur’ art auction, King Charles III helped us raise a staggering £72,000.
This allowed us to adopt an entire village in Darfur and introduce our life-changing sustainable projects to the community. A new handpump meant there was clean water for families at last. The Kids for Kids’ Goat loan allowed mothers to feed their malnourished children protein-rich goat’s milk and save their lives. And the new Kindergarten was built to give children an education and a future out of poverty.
Not only that, but trees were planted in the village and around the Kindergarten to provide shade for the children and their animals, and help hold back the Sahara which is creeping south inexorably.
We have been planting drought-resistant trees in villages since 2007. Initially village leaders had said they did not want trees as ‘they attracted birds which ate their seeds’. This is why we decided to plant fruit trees by schools for the children to water and so they could educate their parents. It is hard labour to water the trees, with water often miles away across the desert, but after the first two years the tap roots will have reached the water table, and they will survive. Once village leader saw the benefit of trees, they wanted more!
Now children have access to an education, nutritious fruit to eat and shade to play in - all thanks to the support King Charles III.
We are so grateful to King Charles III for his help with this project and everything he does to support environmental issues internationally.
Please can you take a 'leaf' out of King Charles' book and help us plant even more trees for the children of Darfur?
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