AID DARFUR
UN Refugee Agency in action
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is battling the elements, massive logistics obstacles and daunting security challenges to help hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.
An estimated 200,000 innocent people have been killed and 2.5 million forced from their homes since early 2003 when rebel forces took up arms against the Sudanese government.
In eastern Chad, UNHCR and its humanitarian partners care for 252,000 refugees from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region. They are in 12 camps stretched along the remote Chad-Sudan border. There are also 166,000 internally displaced Chadians in the east. In addition, we are also assisting 70,600 refugees from the Central African Republic in six sites in southern Chad.
In the eastern Chad camps, UNHCR programmes provide everything from family shelters to latrines, clinics, schools, wells and other vital infrastructure. But it is an enormous logistical challenge getting items such as tents, blankets, plastic sheeting and soap to the refugees in the landlocked country.
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