How does the IRC help in Chad?
The IRC began working in Chad in 2004 in response to the arrival of Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad, providing health, nutrition, water and sanitation, women’s protection and empowerment, and education services. Today, the IRC continues to provide these services to both local and refugee populations in three refugee camps in eastern Chad, in addition to health, women’s protection, and livelihoods support in three returnee sites in southern Chad.
Since 2010, the IRC has addressed the drought and food insecurity crises in the Sahel by providing health, nutrition, livelihoods and health services in the Guera and Bahr el Ghazal regions. Working in collaboration with district authorities, the IRC supports over 68,575 children under age five as well as pregnant women and new mothers.
The IRC also works with refugee and returnee communities in eastern and southern Chad to educate both women and men about family planning while respecting clients’ privacy, voluntary choice and confidentiality.
As drought and widespread food insecurity continue to plague the country, the IRC is:
providing emergency reliefproviding primary and reproductive health care, hospital referrals and psychosocial counsellingscreening children to prevent acute malnutrition and provide 24/7 medical treatment to those severely malnourishedproviding clean water to Darfur refugees at Ouré Cassoni camp in the Sahara Deserteducating communities and maintaining early warning systems to prevent disease and enable health workers to respond swiftly to outbreaksraising awareness of the benefits of family planningworking with communities to address the root causes of violence against women, as well as providing medical care to survivors of violenceproviding primary and secondary education to refugee children in eastern Chadproviding economic support through cash grants, financial literacy training and farmer assistance
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Publish date : 2022-07-19 12:42:11
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