Clean Water Sudan Project #21591

Water - the gift of life - for children in Darfur

by Kids for Kids

Water - the gift of life - for children in Darfur

Project Report | Sep 17, 2026
Clean Water Flows for Five More Villages in Darfur

By Sage Lancaster | Fundraising and Outreach Coordinator

Clean Water Flows for a Family!

We have been able to carry out repairs of five handpumps across rural villages in North Darfur, which had been left to idle as conflict spread across the country. With inflation soaring, the prices of everyday items are going up and becoming harder to access due to shortages across the country. Many handpumps, including those once built by other organisations, stand unusable, in need of servicing. Kids for Kids was able to finally organise our first round handpump repairs in the villages of Kindro, Gawir, Um Gadadda, Um Ga'al and Byna.

Bringing the human right of clean water closer to families living across the vast barren desert of Darfur is one of the most important aspects of the work Kids for Kids does. No child should have to walk for hours across the desert in temperatures above 100°F (37°C) to collect the water their family needs to survive. As conflict continues on, the desert becomes increasingly more dangerous, especially for women and girls. Water nearby means safety. Clean water close to home decreases disease, and helps to keep families healthy - essential now more than ever as funding cuts sweep across Sudan closing countless health centres.

It is thanks to you that we were able to repair handpumps as soon as the window of opportunity opened up. Your support means we had the funds available just as soon as we had access to the parts, personnel and transport needed to carry out the repairs. Your dedication to helping the children of Darfur enables us to act with flexibility and in urgency during an ever-changing situation. Please continue to help us bring families the basic resource of clean water. Thank you.

Children collect clean water in their jerrycans

Jerrycans are lined up to collect clean water

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Jun 5, 2026
20 More Villages to Receive Food and Soap

By Sage Lancaster | Fundraising and Outreach Coordinator

Food Packs and Bars of Soap for Families

Three years after conflict erupted in Sudan, the humanitarian crisis continues to deepen. What began as an emergency has become a daily struggle for survival for millions of families across Darfur. Today, around 34 million people need urgent humanitarian assistance (OCHA), and more than 21 million face acute food insecurity.

Kids for Kids has continued to reach families in remote villages, providing essential aid through our unique network of local volunteers. With your help, we are able to continue delivering practical support directly to those who need it most.

Earlier this month we were able to approve our next aid project, helping 2,737 more families across 20 villages. We will be delivering essential nutrition and hygiene supplies to each family: 2 kg Lentils, 2 kg Ground Nuts, 1 kg Beef Jerky, and 5 Bars of Soap. That is 10,948 more children who will have food to eat and soap to keep clean with.

We are also delighted to share that a handpump in Gawir Village (adopted in 2021) was repaired last month, restoring access to clean water for families who had been struggling without it close by. For women and girls, a working handpump is a source of both water and security. Having clean water nearby means they do not have to make long and often dangerous journeys across the desert, where they can be vulnerable to violence. Clean water will reduce the risk of diseases such as cholera and help families stay healthy.

Every donation you make helps us protect more children living in conditions of extreme deprivation. We are so grateful for your help.

Bars of Soap are provided to protect from disease

Handpump being repaired in Gawir Village

Handpump Repair - Water Flows Again!

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Feb 6, 2026
Soap Means Hope for Mothers in Darfur

By Sage Lancaster | Fundraising and Outreach Coordinator

Soap and Food for a Family

Upon news of the cholera outbreak in Sudan last year, Kids for Kids started to provide bars of Soap to every family receiving our Kids Kitchen Kits. These kits include lentils, pulses, groundnuts and cooking oil - essential food items to ensure children aged five and under do not starve during the ongoing conflict. And now each family will have soap too. The first mothers to receive her five bars, cried.

Cases of both cholera and diphtheria have been on the rise in Sudan due to contaminated water and unsanitary conditions. The ongoing conflict has decimated the healthcare system. Medicine is virtually unavailable, not to mention vaccines to prevent children from contracting these bacteria from the dirty water.

It costs £20 to provide ten families with five bars of soap each.

Soap for our villages means the prevention of dangerous bacteria. And it means that Mothers will be able to bathe and clean their little ones. "Providing soap is not just for practical purposes," said Kids for Kids Founder, Patricia Parker OBE. "The hope it gives mothers, and the feeling that they are being empowered to look after their families more makes a massive difference."

Thanks to your help, Kids Kitchen Kits full of food have reached 100,848 children aged five and under. Together we have reached 60 of the 110 Kids for Kids villages, providing seeds, medicine, mosquito nets and now soap. Every time you make a donation you are bringing both aid and hope to families that no one else is helping. You are showing families that they have not been forgotten.

Please will you share this report with one friend? Encourage them to donate soap - hope - today for children in living through the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Thank you.

Delivery of Soap and Kids Kitchen Kits!

Little Girl Looking at the Soap for her Village

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