By Sage Lancaster | Fundraising and Outreach Coordinator
466,000 bars of soap have arrived in El Fasher from Khartoum and have been delivered to all our 105 villages in North Darfur! Since the COVID-19 pandemic reached Sudan we have acted urgently to ensure that people in the rural villages were provided with a way to protect themselves against contracting the virus. NO ONE ELSE IS HELPING THESE REMOTE COMMUNITIES. With no ventilators, no oxygen, not even painkillers, if COVID-19 were to reach rural villages it would be a disaster. We must now pay for the soap, and your donations are making that ever more possible!
Your combined donations to our Microproject for Soap raised enough to cover the cost of soap for families in 22 villages in Darfur! That is over 3000 families in villages where there is no healthcare who now are able to wash their hands and prevent COVID-19. You have empowered people to take action against a deadly virus, doing what they can to keep themselves safe.
Please note we have now included an option to donate soap in one of our more permanent projects as we need the funds to pay for soap to the other villages. We could not wait as the virus reached Darfur but we need your help now please! If you are able, do encourage friends to donate for soap too: 'Water - the gift of life - for children in Darfur'.
Confirmed cases of COVID-19 had reached 12,400 as of August 16th (UN OCHA Sudan) and are on the rise. But testing is only being done in the main towns - the villages. We will never know the true number. People are dying in El Fasher and Mellit of 'unknown causes' with coronavirus symptoms.
Kids for Kids works to help families change their own lives in the long-term through a range of sustainable projects proposed and implemented by the communities themselves. However, when no one else is helping families in an emergency situation, it is up to us to ensure people are given the basic essentials they need to survive. We can only do this with your help so thank you so much for responding urgently. To give soap is to give life - and you have made this possible for many families already. But more people need us.
Again, if you are able, do encourage friends to donate for soap here: 'Water - the gift of life - for children in Darfur'. Thank you so much.
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