Chad

Some 300,000 people live under the threat of mines and explosive remnants of war, the legacy of successive conflicts. Moreover, instability on the country's borders has only served to worsen an already complex humanitarian situation, with more than 4 million people now in need of humanitarian aid or emergency assistance. Humanity & Inclusion has been working since October 2014 to support the country’s mine clearance and victim assistance sectors. Since 2015, the organisation has raised the awareness of displaced populations in the Lake Chad region to the risk from unexploded ordnance and promoted the inclusion of children with disabilities.

School in Chad -Humanity & Inclusion | © Denis Ricca / HI

Our actions

Humanity & Inclusion helps clear land contaminated by mines and explosive remnants of war in order to restore it to villages directly affected by them. It provides training for members of the National Mine Action Centre and updates its procedures.

The organisation trains Chadian personnel in physical rehabilitation and is supporting this sector by developing a system for identifying people with disabilities. It has supported the reopening of the N' Djamena rehabilitation centre and helps organisations of casualties and people with disabilities - particularly marginalised in Chad – to uphold their rights. In the Lake Chad region, where many people have fled violence perpetrated by the Boko Haram group in neighbouring Nigeria, Humanity & Inclusion is working to improve access to education for children with disabilities. Humanity & Inclusion also implements risk education on unexploded ordnance to reduce the number of accidents.

The organisation also implements income-generating and social-professional support activities to promote the socio-economic inclusion of vulnerable people, including young people with disabilities.

Areas of intervention

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Armed violence reduction

Weapons clearance drones

Weapons clearance platform in northern Chad

HI mine action in northern Chad

Country situation

Essentially rural, Chad is ranked among the world’s 10 poorest countries in terms of human development.

Chad has some 14 million inhabitants, 47 per cent of whom live below the poverty line, according to the World Bank. The regional security situation remains worrying: the crises in Sudan, the Central African Republic and Libya, as well as the actions of the terrorist organisation Boko Haram, have worsened an already very complex humanitarian situation. The country is already hosting close to 600,000 people who have fled neighbouring crises and are living in very precarious conditions.

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