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 | Apr 11, 2023
You really are making their dreams come true!

By Patricia Parker | Founder

Water is flowing

With your help, we installed a record total of 12 successful handpumps in our villages last year.

Water is always one of our most challenging projects. The terrain is difficult. Despite one of the largest aquafers in Africa lying under Darfur, the basement strata means that surveys can be inaccurate, or, almost worse, water can be contaminated by underground chemicals from the different layers of rock.

To have no less than 12 successful handpumps providing clean fresh water to communities who have spent years of their lives walking for water, truly is a dream come true.

But, across Darfur, there are still children walking hours under the hot desert sun to reach the nearest water miles away. Even in villages that have had a handpump nearby there are many needing repair – beyond the abilities of the villagers to do themselves. With no other organisations helping, we need to repair pumps too. There are still so many communities that need our help.

This year we are planning to drill and install 5 new hand pumps in the 5 villages we adopted last year, as well as a solar submersible pump. A handpump costs $8,125 and can be named after your loved one – a living memorial – but we also have a water fund to which you can add any amount - repairing a handpump costs $625 – and everyone needs a jerry can – just $32 for two.

But we need your help!

These pumps will provide easily accessible clean water to thousands of families and their animals. Children will no longer have to walk hours for water. Instead, they can attend school, gain an education and dream of a future out of poverty. Children need your help!

Please can you help us help them achieve their dream by donating to our water projects?

Water is struck!

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Dec 19, 2022
British Ambassador to Sudan Visits Kids for Kids' Village

By Charlotte Allum | Fundraising and Outreach Coordinator

H.E. Giles Lever greeted in Majdoub A

In November 2022, we were absolutely delighted to welcome H.E. Giles Lever, the British Ambassador to Sudan, to Majdoub A, a village we adopted back in 2007 when it was one of the poorest. It is now thriving and many times larger and is one of our 110 Kids for Kids’ Villages we have adopted in Darfur so far.

This is all thanks to you and your support!

During his recent village, our team in Darfur took the El Fasher-Kutum road, showing the Ambassador the Kids for Kids' villages along the way and passing many trees planted by Kids for Kids to provide shade at houses, roads and schools.

They also pointed out the Kids for Kids' villages - Geleidat 2017, Gerni 2009, Hillat Anass 2021 and Berbojat 2005 - which a part of the Majdoub A 2007 water yard where there is a high water store. The date after the name is the year in which we adopted them.

Majdoub A 2007 joined the Kids for Kids programme in 2007 and has been one of our most successful villages.

Thanks to your generous donations, we were able to select 55 goat beneficiaries, the poorest families, in Majdoub A 2007 to help initially.

On 12th September 2008, these beneficiaries received a total of 275 nanny goats, 18 billy goats, 55 donkeys, 110 mosquito nets and 110 blankets. Every two years the next generation of beneficiaries passed on 5 nanny goats to another family.

Hand pumps were drilled in the village and training was undertaken so the villagers could run the projects themselves. Three paravets, two midwives and two first aid workers were also trained to provide health services to the goats and families and to help in deliveries saving the lives of many mothers and infants.

In 2008 a community forest was established in the village. On 12th September 2010 the village held a 100% successful first goat rotation, whereby all the previous goat beneficiaries each gave 5 nanny goats to another of the poorest families, adding 55 goat beneficiaries to the village. In 2011, as a reward, the village received the first Kids for Kids health unit. On 12th November 2012 another 100% successful second goat rotation took place, adding another 55 goat beneficiaries. In 2020, the village was rewarded with the 14th Kids for Kids’ kindergarten.

Kids for Kids has continued to provide services to the villages, helping the local community in emergencies like droughts and shortage of rains, providing seeds, fodder, millet and durra and supported households who were affected by fires and floods.

H.E. Giles Lever was given a very warm welcome by our team in Darfur and the villagers in Majdoub A and said that the UK was “fully committed to helping Sudan achieve peace and stability”.

The British Ambassador to Sudan pointed out that achieving peace and stability in Sudan requires the participation of everyone from different regions of Sudan and he’s proud of the Kids for Kids achievements at Majdoub A 2007 and North Darfur villages.

Our Honorary Chairman of the Khartoum Committee, Hatim, thanked the British Ambassador for his visit to a Kids for Kids village and thanked the villagers for their great reception and warm welcome. His thanks also extended to the village community for protecting and maintaining all Kids for Kids' projects, especially the community forest and he confirmed to the local community that Kids for Kids is committed to implement the remaining one kilometre water pipeline from Elquoe village to Majdoub (A) 2007.

We are thrilled that, with your support, Majdoub A is thriving and the future is full of hope for the families who live there.

But there are many more villages, just like Majdoub A, that need our help!

And, of course, it all starts with water! Something we all take for granted when we so easily turn on a tap...

This holiday season, could you consider donating to our Water Projects to bring clean, safe water to those who need it most?

Thank you so much for your generosity - we are forever grateful!

A warm welcome from the villagers in Majdoub A

Some villagers greet him on horseback

Trees visible on the journey to Majdoub A

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Aug 24, 2022
Rain at last for Darfur!

By Charlotte Allum | Fundraising and Outreach Coordinator

Green pasture in Hillat Sabil

Dry Darfur? Not Anymore!

Late July and early August tend to be the rainy season in Darfur and we are delighted that this year the rains have indeed come!

The parched earth is now green with grass. Crops are flourishing, families will have food, animals will have fodder and the people can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Isn't this picture of a green pasture in one of our newly adopted villages, Hillat Sabil, just wonderful!

Now we just need to pray that there is no flooding. Do you remember the frightening floods that destroyed so many straw huts last year and drowned both goats and donkeys? We are watching carefully as elsewhere in Sudan floods have already destroyed people's homes. Global warming is a real threat. In Darfur it is life threatning.

But green pastures really do bring hope for the future. Hope for children and their families, hope for their animals and, particularly, hope for the new villages we've adopted this year.

We can now start purchasing Goats for these new villages.

Soon we will be providing the poorest families in these villages with five Goats each as part of our Goat Loan project.

Mothers will be able to provide nourishing goat's milk for their starving children and have the prospect of an income too as they will be able to sell any excess milk. After two years, once the little flock has grown, five Nanny Goats will be passed on to another of the poorest families to benefit. Sustainability at its best.

Can you imagine just how life-changing this will be for these families? And for so many more in the future?

We now need your help to provide these Goats, to give these families hope.

Could you help us by donating a Goat - or five for a whole family? Goats give hope for a better, healthier, future.

We are so grateful for all your support, we really cannot do it without you - just think how life-changing those Goats will be!

Goats grazing with Kids

Beneficiary Woman with new Goat Loan

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