Education Sudan Project #10020

Kindergartens for Vulnerable Children in Darfur

by Kids for Kids

Project Report | Oct 20, 2016
Education is the way out of poverty in Darfur

By Patricia Parker MBE | Founder

Celebration at Kindergarten opening, Abu Digeise

When we dug our first handpump in 2001 in Um Ga'al, one of the poorest villages in Darfur, it enabled every boy and girl to go to school because they no longer had to spend every hour of every day collecting water. "I went back six months after my first visit to Darfur to check that the money I had raised had been spent properly - providing the hand pump and goats and donkeys for 36 of the poorest families, and to make sure that the volunteers who had set up the first Kids for Kids committee were running the projects properly" said Patricia Parker who founded the charity when she came across a small boy walking seven hours to fetch water. There were aid agencies in Darfur but not one was helping.

Sixteen years later, thanks to you, we have installed nearly 70 handpumps and repaired over 500, and transformed the lives of over 340,000 people. And now our first four Kindergartens are up and running. "They are so successful that the teachers are overwhelmed with mothers begging them to take their children" said Patricia. "Our aim is to provide a Kindergarten in every one of our villages. Please can you help? It is touching to see the children's faces when they see toys for the first time in their lives. Can you imagine - a life without toys? But in Darfur, it is a life without a bed, without electricity, without health care, without shoes, and so often, without food or water."

In 2017 Kids for Kids is planning to build 5 new Kindergartens, 5 Health Centres and 5 Veterinary Centres. Please can you help. "Despite the tragic isolation of Darfur, and the continued violence, we are showing that you can help, one village at a time, even one child at a time. It makes a difference. It is slow, but to see a child grow up healthy, happy and able to stay in his own home is a small miracle. Please will you help us give a future to the children in the villages of Darfur. Let's fulfill their mother's dreams by giving them an education to help them find a way out of poverty."

New School gives chance to children

Chance of a better future at last

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Jul 28, 2016
More kindergartens needed to help educate children break out of poverty

By Lan Hudec | Personal Assistant to Founder Patricia Parker MBE

A blackboard and straw shade was the best they got

98% mothers in Darfur are illiterate, they beg us to help their children

From the start mothers have begged for help in educating their children. They know it is the way out of poverty, but they also know that if a child starts school late it is hard for them to catch up. This is why our kindergartens are so important. When the Director of Education in the State Ministry visited our first kindergarten at Abu Nahla he said it was unique in Darfur. Not only do we provide classrooms and a veranda for shade and a play area, we provide latrines - the first in the village. Children who have never seen a toy now have indoor and outdoor toys, suitable for both boys and girls. Outlying huts can be miles away. Our school bus – a donkey cart – is the first in Darfur. We are now planning school libraries. Children need books – there are none in any village.

We have been given the go ahead to adopt five new villages (children have starved to death in each of them THIS year) plus five new kindergartens. Funding a Kindergarten and giving children the chance of an education is of immense, probably primary, importance in Darfur. People know that education is their best way out of poverty. It is an enormous privilege to be able to help!

Please help us to equip villages with educational equipment and towards building a kindergarten to help educate children to break out of poverty

$35 will provide 30 bricks to help build the school

$42 will provide books, crayons, uniform and an education toy for one child

$50 will provide 20 story books

$140 will provide notebooks, pencils and coloured pencils for 50 children

$500 will train a kindergarten teacher

$1,600 will provide 2 blackboards for the classroom, educational toys and games for 50 children

$42,000 will build one whole kindergarten with latrines, veranda, two classrooms and equipment

Thank you so much for your support.

A veranda can be another classroom and shade

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Apr 28, 2016
Kids for Kids Kindergartens - News from Abu Degeise

By Alex Sanderson | Assistant to CEO

Toys and play are vital for development

Kids for Kids Kindergartens – News from Abu Degeise

“Kindergartens are game-changers, giving a whole generation new hope for a brighter future.“

Patricia Parker MBE – Founder Kids for Kids

We were delighted to receive our Kindergarten Report from Abu Degeise last week. This is submitted in part by the teachers, and in part by the Village Development Committee, who are volunteers considered wise by the community. Here is an extract from that report so you can see first-hand what feedback we are receiving. (The translation was sent from Darfur):

"First special thanks to Patricia Parker MBE, and Joanna Lumley from all Abu Degeise peoples children, mothers, women, men and youth for the great services provided by Kids for Kids since 2007 goats loan, donkeys, blankets and mosquito nets, finally, the kindergarten, which caused a change in the village kids in the past students are sitting on the ground in buildings of local materials and now children came in early morning happy and delighted, the kindergarten building attracted children and changed the concepts of many parents insisting to register their children and the number of children increase from 90 to 170 students.

We need other Elements even kindergarten lead its purpose:-

1- We need another teacher because more children need school

2- And a way to carry water for drinking and irrigation of trees

3- We need to store

4- We need to nutrition feed children

5- We need new uniforms

6- Bus cart to transport students

7- More seats please

Suad Suliman Abud Allah Bahar

Kindergarten Headmaster"

As you can see, the Kindergarten is growing and making a big difference, and we have more to do to help this Kindergarten to flourish. Can you help us to meet these needs please?

$35 provides 20 bricks to help build a kindergarten or add a classroom

$305 provides a latrine to keep schools clean and healthy

$75 provides 20 trees to provide shade and food at school

$150 pays for one child to be educated for one year

$42,000 provides a whole Kindergarten including boundary wall, latrines and all equipment

$51 provides a First Aid kit for the school

$22 provides shoes for 5 children so they can walk to school

Thank you for your support.

Our Goat Loans help children flourish

First Pupils inside a new kindergarten

Abu Degeise Kindergarten

Lessons in progress

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