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Chad
Chad was ranked 189 of 193 countries in the UNDP 2023-24 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
Livelihoods
We're supporting livelihoods through climate adaptation programs; skills training, crop and livestock management; vegetable production to increase community resilience; unconditional cash distributions and support for vulnerable families to set up small businesses; and vocational training for young women and men from vulnerable households.
Health and nutrition
Education in communities
A Concern medical staff member filling a prescription at the mobile clinic. The most common ailments are skin conditions, malaria, and malnutrition. Photo: Gavin Douglas
The mobile clinic. Photo: Gavin Douglas
A Concern doctor with Jasim*. His mother Nayla* brought him to the Concern supported clinic after he stopped eating. He has since reached a healthy weight. Photo: Gavin Douglas
Medicine donation at the Ngouboua Health Centre, Kaya Department, Lake Province. Photo: Laurent DeRuyt /Concern Worldwide
A Concern team member inspects a well. Concern provides many wells in the Lake Chad region with more planned over the coming years. Access to water has always been a challenge in the region. Photo: Gavin Douglas/Concern Worldwide
How we're helping in 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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