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invited by Kate Redfern Patricia Parker Given the MBE for her services to charity. Patricia started Kids for Kids about eleven years ago, to raise money to buy goats, donkeys and to train local midwives, purchase and install fresh water pumps, and provide veterinary services for sixtythree villages in Darfur, Sudan. They also initiated the first baobab tree-planting programme. She and her team have persevered in the most difficult of circumstances. She says ‘We don’t believe in charity, we believe in helping people to help themselves.’ www.kidsforkids.org.uk South London Women Artists I’m Inside, Ring The Bell 55