Chad
Chad At A Glance
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Directing HQ: Action Against Hunger - France
Launch Date: 1983
Beneficiaries (2009): 114,162 people
Institutional Funders: UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), AJWS (American Jewish World Service), ELLE Foundation
Launch Date: 1983
Beneficiaries (2009): 114,162 people
Institutional Funders: UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), AJWS (American Jewish World Service), ELLE Foundation
Press Contact
Christina Lionnet
Chargé de communication, ACF-France
clionnet@actioncontrelafaim.org
Direct: + 33 1 43 35 82 37
Chargé de communication, ACF-France
clionnet@actioncontrelafaim.org
Direct: + 33 1 43 35 82 37
Field Updates | Chad
Chad: A View from the Ground
July 26, 2010
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Sitting in front of a therapeutic Stabilization Center in Kanem, Western Chad, one-year-old Adam smiles weakly as his mother Hawa cradles him. Determined to save her son, Hawa traveled five days by camel in the burning heat to bring him to the nearest health center. His whole body swollen with edema, Adam was in an advanced stage of acute malnutrition, a condition that can be deadly if left untreated. » Read more |
Sahel Food Crisis: 10 Leading Aid Agencies Call for Urgent 'Surge' in Aid for 10 Million Hungry People
July 8, 2010
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NEW YORK, NY— Ten leading aid agencies today called for a 'surge' in the humanitarian effort to help 10 million people at risk of acute hunger across the Sahel region of West and Central Africa. The center of the crisis is Niger, where seven million people, almost half the population, have not enough food. » Read more |
Malnutrition Crisis in Chad Threatens Thousands of Young Lives
July 6, 2010
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Country Director Jean-François Carémel discusses the malnutrition crisis in the Bahr el Ghazal region of western Chad, where Action Against Hunger’s recent surveys show the severe malnutrition rate for children under five at 27 percent—almost double the emergency threshold set by the World Health Organization. » Read more |
Staggering Malnutrition Rates Uncovered in Chad
February 17, 2010
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BAHR EL GHAZAL, CHAD—A nutrition survey conducted in Bahr el Ghazal, a vast semi-arid region of western Chad, reveals global acute malnutrition rates well above the emergency threshold designated by the World Health Organization (WHO), Action Against Hunger | ACF International announced today. » Read more |
Towards a Worsening Humanitarian Crisis in Chad
February 8, 2008
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Paris, France — Uncertainty is the only current outcome given the ongoing military confrontation in Chad. The humanitarian situation was dire before fighting erupted last week, but Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF) is concerned the crisis will deteriorate further in N’Djamena and in the sprawling camps for refugees and internally displaced peoples in the east. » Read more |
