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Chad Red Cross and the International Federation have been assisting
refugees fleeing the conflict in the Sudanese region of Darfur
since December 2003. They currently manage two camps, Tréguine
and Bredjing, with a combined population of 43,000 people. Below
are some of the stories of the refugees, volunteers and delegates
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| The
camp manager diary |
 The
manager of the Tréguine camp has to be everywhere, whether
organising the transfer of refugees, supervising distributions,
consulting the heads of the refugee community or meeting representatives
of partner organisations. Read more about the camp
manager, and read his diary, to
find out more about daily life in the camp.
Read more about the new camp manager |
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| The
Tréguine team |
The
Chad Red Cross and the International Federation have been assisting
refugees fleeing the conflict in the Sudanese region of Darfur
since December 2003. They currently manage two camps, Tréguine
and Bredjing, with a combined population of 43,000 people. Below
are some of the stories of the refugees, volunteers and delegates
who live and work there.
Meet the members
of the team |
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July 2005
Volunteering without borders
He worked for the Sudanese Red Crescent
and now, having sought refuge in Chad, is volunteering for the
Red Cross. Adam Mahamat Dahab is determined to keep his community
healthy – and the principles of the Red Cross and Red
Crescent alive. Adam takes out his Chad Red Cross name badge
and says he feels at home in the organization, even though he
has switched from crescent to cross.
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full story |
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July 2005
Improving
nutrition
For the young refugee children in
the Red Cross-run camp at Tréguine, malnutrition is a
constant risk. A special therapeutic nutrition centre staffed
by volunteers who are themselves refugees is addressing the
problem – not only among the refugees, but also the local
population.
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17 June 2005
Life-saving visits
Although all the Sudanese refugees
living in camps in eastern Chad are in a precarious situation,
a new Red Cross programme focuses on those most at risk. A central
part of the scheme is home visits to the elderly, disabled,
chronically ill and orphaned by fellow refugees. Fellow
refugees being trained by the Red Cross to do home visits and
care for people who are chronically ill, have a disability,
are elderly or orphaned. It will be their responsibility to
visit extremely vulnerable people every day, and others a few
times a week, in the Red Cross-managed camps of Bredjing and
Tréguine, home to a total of 44,000 people.
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