Fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region has claimed 200,000 lives. Another 240,000 refugees have fled into Chad to escape the Janjaweed militias who come in the night to kill, rape, and terrorize. Nearly 2 million people have been forced from their homes and internally displaced, urgently needing food and medical care. Their existence depends upon a fragile aid lifeline that can be easily disrupted when conflict erupts.

In eastern Chad, UNHCR maintains 12 refugee camps, which include family shelters, clinics, schools, and wells, providing a safe haven from the militias. But these camps are isolated, and the remote communities surrounding them are already struggling

UNHCR has remained in Sudan in order to implement important humanitarian programmes in Darfur. Around the clock, UNHCR helps to provide critically needed protection, shelter, clean water, education, and medical attention to refugees, especially children. This work for the internally displaced in Sudan helps relieve pressure on neighbouring Chad.

60% of these refugees are children. Without UNHCR support they would have nowhere to go.

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