Join Kids for Kids for an exciting new challenge!

Push yourself and join us in STEPPING UP and supporting the forgotten children of Darfur, trapped amidst horrendous fighting.

Let's get fit, let's have fun - let's FUNDRAISE!

The Challenge: Complete 2,023 sponsored STEP UPS for STEPtember in September 2023

The Beauty of Step ups is...

...they can be done by everyone everywhere! All you need is an object to step onto. This can be a stair, bench, curb, or box!

Step ups are a great strengthening exercise and can help build muscle in the glutes, quads, and hamstrings if performed regularly. By adding weights, you can work the core, triceps and biceps too!

There are several different STEP UP options:

Option 1: The STANDARD STEP UP:

Stand in front of an elevated surface like a box or a bench, with your feet hip-width apart. You could also use a step in your house, in the garden or a curb.

Place one foot on top of the surface and push through your heel to lift your body up onto it.

Bring the other foot to meet the first foot on top of the surface.

Bend your knee and step down with the opposite foot. Bring the first foot down to meet the second foot on the ground.

Option 2: The SUPER STEP UP:

Do the STANDARD STEP UP above whilst holding something weighty - dumbbells or a tin of beans! - in your hands to add resistance.

Once you reach the top of your step, raise the weights to work harder.

Option 3: The SUPER DUPER STEP UP:

This is the SUPER STEP UP with an added knee-lift for both knees at the top of the step.

Alternatively, if you wish to work harder still, you could add a squat once you're back on the ground in between your step ups.

For more information on these options, visit our FAQs page.

And, if 2,023 Step ups is too many for you, just set your own personal target!

Whatever suits you, your body and feels most comfortable. And if anything doesn't feel good, please just stop!

This is a personal challenge for you and we are just so grateful that you are keen to STEP UP and support the forgotten children of Darfur.

Here are some other ideas...

Perhaps you fancy walking 2,023 STEPS each day in September 2023?

Or would you prefer to walk or run 20 miles in one day?

Could you organise a sponsored Walk for Water where everyone walks laps of your village, carrying heavy water containers, just like the children of Darfur?

Or perhaps you could take part in a sponsored STEP aerobics or Zumba class to get your steps in!

However you fancy STEPPING UP for the children of Darfur, we are right behind you!

We must help children affected by the fighting in Sudan. There is no one else.

The situation is heart-breaking.

With fighting continuing across the country, the UN reports that over 2 million people have fled the country.  

UNICEF says hundreds of unaccompanied minors have fled to Chad and elsewhere.

The danger of travelling anywhere in Darfur is endangering the lives of hundreds of women and children. Major food shortages have been reported with the World Food Programme saying that it expects between two and 2.5 million more people to face acute hunger in the coming months. Normal life has not just been disrupted but destroyed.

But Kids for Kids are helping to change all that!

Our aim has always been to provide sustainable help and right now that is proving valuable beyond belief.

£50 helps us donate 1 Goat to a family. Goats milk from our Goats provides essential proteins, vitamins and minerals to countless children who were already malnourished following drought and flood last year. Now our goats are a lifeline to children in Darfur.

£65 enables to us give a Donkey - so families can avoid the danger and quickly carry heavy loads - jerry cans containing clean water, firewood, hay for their animals, or gather in a harvest.

£200 will help us plant 100 Tree Seedlings in a Community Forest - to stabilise the desert, provide shade, fruit and other by-products for families to generate an income.

£250 allows us to give 5 Goats for a family - after two years, as the flock grows, 5 goats are given to another family to benefit.

£400 enables us to train a First Aider - who can help save children's lives.

£2,000 helps us to train a Midwife - saving mothers and babies' lives now that hospitals are barely functioning.

£6,500 allows us to install a Handpump near villages, reducing the danger of walking long distances.

£20,000 enables us to build a Kindergarten - are giving children an education and a future out of poverty.

What will you Step Up and aim for?

How much can we raise together for the forgotten children of Darfur?

Let's Step up. Let's Support them. Let's spread the word.

Let's challenge ourselves to help change children's lives. Let's STEP UP and support the forgotten children of Darfur.

Click START FUNDRAISING above to join the STEPtember challenge!

Click GIVE NOW to support the team doing the steps and help us change children's lives in Darfur!

Thank you so much for all your support - together we can change lives!