Tomorrow‘s swim for the charity Green Kordofan by Award-winning actress Jessica Hynes  is rescheduled to Tuesday, 7th of July because of the weather forecast, we have been watching the waves and decided it's better to do It then!


New date is : Tuesday 7th July , 12 midday 

The Spaced star is preparing to swim 4.6 miles along the Kent coast between the Hythe Imperial Hotel, in Hythe, and Sunny Sands beach, in Folkestone.
We will meet at Hythe Imperial
A support boat by the wonderful David Harvey, from Folkestone lifeboat will be supporting too 

......... will swim to the Mermaid Beach, arriving around 2pm if all goes well.  
 
A huge thank you to all who made a donation to support the two causes, it means so much!

Below are links for the fundraisers
Please share, if you can 
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https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Jessica-Hynes2?utm_campaign=lc_frp_share_transaction_transactional_--_page_launched_--_campaign&utm_content=34c54840-7fc4-451a-aa0a-a05c1d8d4c71&utm_medium=email&utm_source=postoffice&utm_term=1592382684051

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Jessica-Hynes1?utm_campaign=lc_frp_share_transaction_transactional_--_page_launched_--_campaign&utm_content=66199b0c-6b9d-4574-a96e-e4151ae8fd8e&utm_medium=email&utm_source=postoffice&utm_term=1592381133054
 
Thank you!
 

CELEBRATING THE CONTRIBUTION OF OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH THE 10K FUN RUN IN FOLKESTONE OVER THE PAST YEARS!​Thanks to all of the very generous people who put on our Green Kordofan T. Shirts in the spirit of sports and support for our aim to bring fun and normality into the lives of young people in Yida Camp, by taking part in the coastal fun run and other charity races in the same spirit each year!

​COVID-19 has made it very difficult for some of our activities to continue this year, but your love, donations and energy continues to keep us going, so many thanks to everyone who takes part.

If, you would like to take part in the run this spetmber, please click here to register and mentioned Green Kordofan as a cause you support, thanks again and Keep well.
more information about the race is available at ​Folkestone Coastal 10k website.

​​Kuko lives in Yida refugee camp he is from the Nuba Mountains and wants to be like Messi. This interview was conducted by David who is Kuko's football coach in the camp.
Kuko lost his arm it had to be amputated after a bomb fell on him and the people he was with, they ran for cover under a tree and he woke up in the hospital.

Kuko like many children from Sudan have been displaced. He joined Green Kordofan in 2017 and it has given him something to make himself feel a bit better and given him dreams to aspire to.
We are not asking for much just a bit of support so we can help support amazing children like Kuko. 23,000 children live in Yida refugee camp alone but there are many camps all full of Sudanese and South Sudanese children in need of basic human kindess.... The joy that Kuko gets from playing football cannot be measured many will never leave the camp and many will be forced out when they reach 18years of age

and below as he playing football with his mates.

 Folkestone Half Marathon 2019 was success!
 As ever great organisation, wonderful support, thanks to all involved!
We are so greatful to all of you who supporeted our runners by donations and cheering on social media,you all rock!

 Our running heroes have done so well! depite the challenging weather.
 Rashid completed the race on 1.48.35 
  Asme followed that shortly and crossed the finishing line at 1.50.07
Rashid and Asme run to raise money to help children in Yida refugee camp in South Sudan.

   A big Congratulations them both!
  We are so delighted with the result! 
 You can see the race result at: https://www.nice-work.org.uk/races/folkestoneHalf/2019

Click the link below if, you still want to support their fundraiser: 
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/asmeandrashidrun29septmber2019

 here for you, Some of the memoriable moments from yesterday, as the winds gathered strength, see above the runners lined up at the starting line around 10:00 am 

 Big smile on Asme's face,looking good! only a few miles from the crossing!

Rashid above as approching the crossing line! you can hear how loud the wind was on video below

  here we share some moments of celebrations with friends 

 Thanks to @Yo yo's Street food for the delicious food, you guys are wonderful!

We couldn't have done this without the support of friends just like you, if you would like to join our team, or like to help in anyway, please drop us a line here.
Together we help to provide a better life for boys and girls in Yida Refugee camp South Sudan.
You can help us promote child refugee welfare in South Sudan.
You can promote young girls’ welfare through football, volleyball, cycling, you can give them option to explore other sports.
​Click the donation button

​See in the pictures part of children activities to mark #International Peace Day in Yida refugee camp, South Sudan.

Children's Drawing workshops to help them reflect, share their experience, tell their stories, learn by doing things for themselves.
 Amazing efforts from the volunteers there who provide emotional support and assistance to all participants.
The workshop with no doubt have help them express their feelings! see more images below.

​Children draw their own stories!

Talk about fears and hopes.

 Hi5 to our brilliant new cyclist and team led, you rock!
 RS joined us in 2018 and now leads the girls cyclist teams, see photos of the team below. 

​Please, tune here later for more news and the result of football tournament, happy international peace day,

  Folkestone is doing it again! 
  This Septmber,
   Stand up Comedy, Poetry, Music & Food
    Where: Sunflower house, 45 Foord Rd, Folkestone CT19 5AE
          Time: 6pm - 9pm
  A benefit event hosted by the brilliant  Sharon McCaron and feature all of

• The British Jazz & Rock Singer CAROL GRIMES
• DIANNE DUNN: Folkestone folk & blues singer, and acoustic guitarist
• HELGA MENDES DAFONSECA-Shaw (DJ)
• SHAB IBRAHIM (stand up – comedian – focusing on the humour of being half Sudanese and half British)​
• ANTHONY WHITE (Poet)

  &  Manna from heaven will be provided by the wonderful
    YOYO STREET FOOD CAFE FOLK  
     drop us a line to book your place ASAP: greenkordofan@gmail.com

This is a fundraising event in aid of Green Kordofan, a Kent based charity supporting war displaced children from Sudan, registered charity number 1164386,to learn more about their work visit www.greenkordofan.com

We annually mark this occasion at the Refugee camps in South Sudan. We have done so for the last four years. It works instrumentally in bringing people together and helped lift up their spirit up. We do hope it has enabled them to explore the meaning of peace too.
​We need to team up for peace,
Because, our peace relies on others! 

Cycling lesson as you can see above are improving fast with more children volunteering to join,thank you so much if you have supported this initiative. to help us maintain this work, please donate here.

Just wanted to give you a quick update about our Green cycling project. As we stated on our previous post,the bike are delivered. The new activity is going well and have successfully attracted many children, see photos below

 

Free cycling skills session are now available, thanks to all the wonderful donors and volunteers,
​You can help too by making a donation here. You can also encourage others to do so, thank you.

Our bicycle might not resolve all the problems for child refugee in Yida camp, South Sudan. but we hope it could help them travel safe, get their basics needs and improve their chances to get employment in the future.
Being able to ride a bike means they can travel safe and faster to get to their basic needs like water and food.
It just feels right to do it

Green Kordofan currently provides support for more than 780 child, many of them never had the opportunity to go to school and are living in appaling environment with no sanitation and do grapple on daily bais to access basic needs​.

We have sent 12 bicycles to allow children to learn to cycle as a pilot project, in addition to spare kits and equipment, to set up our first bike station.The Bicycles arrived on the 23rd of July and we just can't tell you how delighted the children were!
Our wonderful volunteers helped with assembling the bikes, testing them and assisting with free lessons for both boys and girls.
 Some of the events captured on photos you can see below. 

The Green Bicycle project (as we like to call it) is a new initiative to support children, help the environment and aid the local economy.  

We have the children's future in mind and our intention is to make a positive difference to their lives through improving their welfare and mental ​& physical wellbeing.

​We are very pleased that the number of girls participating in our sporting project continues to rise, this has encouraged us to explore more ways to get everyone involved.

With our Green Bicycle project we are introducing the kids at Yida camp to cycling, offering many young girls an opportunity to enjoy cycling and hopefully use their new skills to get them out and about and ease the troubles of travelling long distances every day to collect water from wells.

​Many of those girls have to do twice daily (or more) long trips to fetch water and carry heavy Jerrycans on their heads. We hope to provide paniers for each bicycle (eventually hopefuly bicycle trailers too) to help them in carrying water and other supplies.
Learning to ride a bicycle will greatly assist them.

Green Kordofan would like to thank everyone who made our cycle project happen with your kind donations and efforts.  You are all stars!

If you would wish to support this initiative  Click the button here to make a donation.

 In kind donation are welcome too.
The following items would be much appreciated:

•  Repair tools
•  Patch kits or puncture repair kits
•  Inner tube (check with us for size)
• Good quality bicycles 
• Pumps

 Your contribution will help us sustain our work and reduce the cost of getting this project off   the ground.
 Help us inspire a child and bring back hope to a nation wracked by cycles of violence. ​​

Put it on & make Yida camp visible
Only £20.00
Pay with PayPal, Credit card, Visa, debit, etc
Postage not included. UK postage Royal mail signed for £4.00, unsigned £3.00.
Local delivery (Folkestone) could be arranged if possible.
To make an order please email me at:
 greenkordofan@gmail.com
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Promote Child Refugee Welfare.
Promote young girls’ welfare through football.
Let’s improve the life of boys and girls in Yida Refugee camp South Sudan.

​Thanks, so much for all your wonderful support. I’m very pleased that I have completed my 60 miles walk challenge with a bonus of 5 miles (my unhappy feet just told me!).
A big thank you to Refugee Tales who provide groups like Green Kordofan a platform to share their messages from.

Thanks to all my fellow walkers without whose support this would not have been possible. Especially when I was delirious and couldn’t deal with the heat and steep hills!!!

 The saying of the day is “coccolithophore”  because,I feel like a tiny mini coccolithophore and I would like you to join me to make a whole Cliff. 
You can help me reach my fundraising target of £1000 to support our charity.
So far, we raised £490
Here is the link to make a contribution:
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/Ragawalk4Yidachildrefugees

All donations gratefully received. ​