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Oxfam in Chad

Children playing near a renovated well in Salal.Oxfam helps renovate wells to ensure communities are able to access a supply of safe water. Photo: Andy Hall

From our staff

Mahamat Dirde Zene, Public Health Engineering Assistant

 Oxfam's focus in Chad is on helping people meet their basic needs - so that they can then focus on building a better future for themselves and their families. It's a poor country, people have suffered a lot here as a result of recent wars, and our geographical location - in the Sahel desert - makes life tough. By enabling people to have clean water, to feel safe and to have a good food supply, we can help them move forward. In my role, I monitor and control water points and train communities in water management. I'm so proud of our work rebuilding wells and hand pumps, and restocking people's livestock. 


West Africa food crisis

Oxfam is aiming to reach around 1 million people across West Africa affected by a food crisis.

West Africa food crisis

The impact of our work: Chad food distribution

Video: Counting every last drop and grain

In 2011-12 Oxfam helped:

550,000
people in
Chad

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Snapshot of Oxfam in Chad

Photo 1/10 photo by: Andy Hall

Livestock are especially important to nomadic communities living in the Sahel desert. Here, Oxfam vet Taha Abdeldjalil prepares as goats are rounded up for vaccinations to keep them healthy. "I vaccinate 1,000 animals a day. This is a great relief to the local community because their animals don't die and they can sell them. I'm very happy and proud of what I do because, here in the Guéra region, a goat is worth a sack of millet so we have to try to save it."

  • Livestock are especially important to nomadic communities living in the Sahel desert. Here, Oxfam vet Taha Abdeldjalil prepares as goats are rounded up for vaccinations to keep them healthy. "I vaccinate 1,000 animals a day. This is a great relief to the local community because their animals don't die and they can sell them. I'm very happy and proud of what I do because, here in the Guéra region, a goat is worth a sack of millet so we have to try to save it."
  • Helping people meet their basic needs is key to our work in Chad. Here, a market gardening project set up by villagers with Oxfam's support, provides both an income and food security for the community in Kassira, in Chad's Guera province. Adjitti Mahamat (pictured) explains, "This work helps us find some food. Garden work has helped us."
  • Our special 'cash-for-work' projects help people contribute towards community projects whilst also providing a valuable source of income. Here in Labado village, community members take part in a project to dig irrigation channels to help water their crops when it rains.

The impact of our work

 The point of our work [digging irrigation channels] is that when it rains water will stay in the field. People from Oxfam came to our rescue. Oxfam people came to give us a job... What's also good is that if we find food, we eat, we smile, we're satisfied. If there's nothing then there's no smile.


Hamra Housman, Oxfam 'cash-for-work' participant, Labado village