Feed The Children (UK) are running projects in deprived areas all over the world.

From planting saplings to disaster aid and water pumps there are always

new challenges. Take a look at some of the projects below to find out more.

The Jiggers Project

Feed The Children (UK) is bitting back at the Jiggers sand flea, which attacks the unprotected feet of children in Africa, with a Stamp Out Jiggers Campaign. The project involves health talks, sanitation campaigns and fumigation in 14 schools and 2,148 homes, helping over 13,000 people affected by this flea.

Jiggers Feet

The Saplings Project

Some 80% of rural Africans depend on wood for fuel, but in some parts of Africa, trees are becoming scarce due to nomadic habits and pressures of growth. Our Saplings project educates children in these areas on the importance of trees for their future and gives them trees to look after and cultivate, underlining the message to the whole community.

Saplings project

Pants and Pads Appeal

Young girls in Kenya and Zimbabwe are missing out on their education due to a huge shortage of women’s sanitary pads and underwear. Every four weeks, they have to absent themselves from school during their period, missing 25% of their education and placing them at a huge disadvantage. Feed The Children (UK) have launched a pants and pads appeal to help the girls go to school.

Pants and Pads Appeal Curves 2008

C-ARP Child Amputee Rehabilitation Programme

Feed The Children (UK) has adopted 12 amputee children, who lost limbs as a direct result of the earthquake in Pakistan on October 8th 2005. The aim is to ensure the children are fully rehabilitated in to their communities and schools. Each child has received a prosthetic limb, which will need to be replaced as they grow in to adulthood. Social workers help the children and families. £4,000 has been donated so far, but more money is needed.