Kids for Kids

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Kids for Kids is a British nonprofit charity formed in 2001 to help children struggling to survive in remote villages in Darfur, Sudan. It is the only charity created specifically to help the children of Darfur.^[1] It has been previously listed in the top three UK charities for the International Development Charity of the Year at the UK Charity Awards.^[2]

The charity was founded by Patricia Parker OBE to support children who are facing hardship in remote villages of Darfur. Kids for Kids provides long term self-sustainable projects, identified by the communities themselves and, uniquely, run by them. Projects are designed to prevent small problems from becoming disasters. It transforms the lives of individual families - the most deprived in each remote village - out of abject poverty immediately, and transforms the whole community long term.

The original inspiration for the charity was a chance meeting between Parker and a nine-year-old Sudanese child from the village of Um Ga'al who was struggling across the desert in the immense heat of Darfur, to fetch water for his brothers and sisters. It was a walk that took him seven hours, and then he faced the long walk back. The water he collected would also be used to keep three goats alive—their milk was the children's only source of protein, minerals and vitamins.