Chad: Launching a mass distribution of supplies for Sudanese refugees | Doctors Without Borders [Video]

NEW YORK/ADRE, Chad, June 27, 2024 — Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a mass distribution of plastic sheeting, mosquito nets, and soap for hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad amid a critical gap in humanitarian aid by United Nations agencies.

The rainy season is beginning in eastern Chad, where more than 600,000 people have fled the war in Sudan since April 2023, but many families have not yet received any assistance to construct shelters or meet other basic needs.

MSF teams began distributions on June 24 in Adré transit camp, a temporary home to more than 180,000 people according to UN estimates, who are predominantly women and children from Sudan’s Darfur region.

Plastic sheeting, soap, and mosquito nets are vital resources in an environment lacking essentials, from shelter to sanitation.

MSF teams are distributing kits containing plastic sheeting and a mosquito net to displaced people living in the Adré transit camp ahead of the …

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