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Chad
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Statistics:
Capital: N'Djamena
Population: 10.1 million
Concern started work in: 2007
Life expectancy: 50.4 years
Literacy rate: 25.7%
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Capital: N'Djamena Population: 10.1 million Concern started work in: 2007
Growing instability and conflict has caused huge displacement in Chad, with more than 700,000 people affected.
World Humanitarian Day
Humanitarianism is about saving lives and keeping people alive. It’s about ensuring people affected by crisis can eventually recover and lead productive lives. It is a fundamental part of what we are as human beings.
Working in Chad: difficulties and dangers
Posted by Alan O Reilly in Concern Blog | 19 August 2009 |
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Chad is one of the most difficult and dangerous areas for aid workers. It is also one of the places where people are most in need of help.
Reacting to crisis in Chad
04 March 2008Concern's Dennis Curry reports on the situation in Chad and how NGOs are reacting to the instability.
A forgotten crisis
04 January 2008Dennis Curry has been working for Concern in Chad for two months. Here he gives an account of the situation on the ground in this troubled country.
Facing the challenges in Chad - podcast
Naoise Kavanagh of the web team recently talked with Andres Felices, a project manger for Concern in Chad.
Watching the world
Recently, the web team has been focusing on getting more video footage on the website.
Arriving in Kerfi
To launch the Chad blog, Margaret Ward, foreign editor with RTE, has been contributing a diary of her recent experiences in Chad. In the past, Margaret has reported from places such as Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Kosovo and North Korea. In this diary she gives a glimpse of what life is like for the people affected by the conflict in Chad, as well as for the Concern staff members who are working in the area.
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A day of life in a Chadian camp
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Forced to leave her village, Hajida and her family are living in the Gouroukoun camp for internally displaced people, outside Goz Beida in eastern Chad. This is an account of one day in Hajida's life in the camp.
Hajida's family displaced by crisis in Chad
31 July 2007Hadija Yousouf is a 27-year-old woman living in the Gouroukoun camp for internally displaced people outside Goz Beida in eastern Chad.
