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Chad
Why Chad? Chad was ranked 190 of 191 countries in the UNDP 2022 Human Development Index and is one of the poorest countries in the world. Chad continues to be highly vulnerable to climate change and other stressors. In 2022, Chad recorded its heaviest rainfall in the past 30 years, these floods affect more than one million people.
A country left vulnerable
Food insecurity affects 6.1 million people and the situation is deteriorating - Chad is experiencing a third consecutive year of severe food insecurity and its worst lean season in the last 10 years. There are nearly one million people displaced, including 524,417 refugees and 406,573 internally displaced persons, as well as Chadian returnees and formerly displaced returnees.
We are responding to the humanitarian needs of host communities and displaced populations in the Lake Chad area, implementing health and nutrition programmes to deliver life-saving assistance and access to basic services health, water, hygiene and sanitation.
Latest achievements
Health and nutrition
In 2022, we supported 68,902 vulnerable and displaced people with improved health and nutritional services; free health care services via our mobile clinics; and clean and safe drinking water though the construction and rehabilitation of boreholes.
Education in communities
Livelihoods
Mother Nayla* and her son Murad* from Tchoukoutalia. Photo: Gavin Douglas / Concern Worldwide.
Nayla with her four children. Hafsa, Nejla, Murad and Jasim outside their home in Tchoukoutalia. Photo: Gavin Douglas / Concern Worldwide.
Demonstration of use of hand washing kit by the Djoua Village Chief, May 2020 in Djoua, Sila Province, Chad. Photo: Concern Worldwide.
Iklass (28) received training in different agricultural techniques. Photo: Lucy Bloxham / Concern Worldwide.
Women working in a field in Doroti Village, Chad. Photo: Lucy Bloxham / Concern Worldwide.
How we're helping Chad
We are working hard to combat suffering and build resilience in Chad. We are doing this by expanding our humanitarian response to reach the most vulnerable communities and establishing programmes, which improve livelihoods and food security, build economic resilience, reduce conflict, promote gender equality and encourage peaceful cohabitation.
We are working in the areas of...
- Displaced populations
- Mobile health clinics
- Emergency response
- Building community resilience
- Promotion of gender equality
Also, in Sila, Concern continues to support access to quality education services for 1,267 boys and 1,005 girls by working to strengthen the education system through the construction and rehabilitation of schools and classrooms and the provision of furniture, equipment and materials for teachers and students. Concern also strengthens the economic resilience of schools by supporting the creation of income generating activities by the schools.
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