Chad
HIAS-Chad provides trauma counseling and social services in five camps in Chad for refugees from the Darfur region of Sudan. We also facilitate relocation for those who need additional protection.
Shortly after the first arrivals of Darfurian refugees across the border into Chad, HIAS co-founded the Psychosocial Initiative for Darfurian Refugees.
Created in 2005 in partnership with IsraAid, the Israeli Forum for International Humanitarian Aid, the program was designed to strengthen refugees’ psychological and social conditions and to teach skills needed to survive and function in the aftermath of genocide and other forms of extreme violence.
HIAS’ work with Darfurian refugees in Eastern Chad continues today in five camps that serve 60% of the camp population -- estimated at 101,000 by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs (OCHA) in April 2008.
