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Life is getting harder for people in Darfur. The heat is intolerable, a burning wind whips the sand into choking storms - and the desert is creeping into people’s homes. Help Kids for Kids plant trees to hold the desert back.
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Kids for Kids runs a range of long-term, self-sustainable projects identified by communities themselves. These include goat and donkey loans, training for paravets, animal vaccination programmes, water pumps, training for midwives, and tree nurseries to combat desertification. The trees that we have already planted are growing so fast – it is hard to believe that small seedlings can turn into sturdy boabab trees so quickly, but in Sudan they can. Planting tree seedlings means that trees cut down for fuel - or to rebuild houses destroyed in the conflict - can be replaced. Trees can also provide fruit for eating and a cash crop - and planting and looking after the seedlings helps bring whole communities together.