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STORY: UNFPA / CHAD SUDANESE REFUGEES
TRT: 5:54
SOURCE: UNFPA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNFPA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 – 20 NOVEMBER 2024, ADRÉ REFUGEE CAMP, ADRÉ, OUADDAÏ PROVINCE, CHAD / FARCHANA REFUGEE CAMP, FORCHANA, OUADDAÏ PROVINCE, CHAD
19 NOVEMBER 2024. ADRÉ REFUGEE CAMP
1. Wide shot, a young girl sits resting her head on her knees, outside a straw structure
2. Med shot, a young girl carrying a baby walks
3. Wide shot, a young boy and a man pass by driving a horse-drawn cart
4. Wide shot, make-shift shelters
5. Close up, a woman stands with a baby in her arms
6. Wide shot, a young boy runs while playing with a tire
7. Wide shot, two women walk alongside one another through the camp.
8. Med shot, two young boys walk hand-in-hand
9. Wide shot, a boy carries a toddler on his back as he walks towards the shelters
10. Wide shot, a young woman sits with a mug in her hand and a young boy stands next to her
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahlam Moussa Mahamat, Seventy-year-old displaced girl:
“Actually, during the war, we were just sitting at home. Armed men came into our home. They called me, saying “Hey, you girl! Where is the general?” I told them that I didn’t know. I haven’t got an older brother who is a general. So they told me, “Go inside.” I refused. So they took me outside and again, they told me to go back outside and I refused. Then I went and sat down. After that, they took my sister and beat her up many times. Then they shot me. They shot me three times. The first time, I didn’t fall down. The second time, my hand was bleeding. Then the third one hit my hand and after that I fell down.”
12. Med shot, a woman and a child sit together eating
13. Med shot, a woman feeds her child some bread
14. Close up, a girl is being fed by her mother
15. Wide shot, three women and one boy sit in a shaded area and eat
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Daralssalam Issa, Forty-one-year-old displaced woman:
“In Sudan, I have a big family and have a happy family. I worked at a university. So everything was good. But in one day, everything changed. The war began in Khartoum on the 15th of April 2023. When they came, they closed schools and hospitals and water went away. We stayed for forty days like this. (After) that, we go away and ask for water, asking for food, asking for hospital.”
17. Wide shot, shelters made by residents
18. Wide shot, two girls sit outside a shelter holding a watermelon
19. Med shot, a young girl sits outside holding a watermelon
20. Med shot, residents and UNFPA workers sit on the floor of a tent clapping
21. Wide shot, residents and UNPFA workers rub their hands together
22. Wide shot, a group of women sit in a room with drawings on the walls
23. SOUNDBITE (French) Soliri Adete, Thirty-two-year-old, UNFPA Midwife:
“I am the head midwife at the maternity ward, specifically at the district hospital in Adré. Every day I work as a midwife. Every day I come into the hospital and the goal of coming to the hospital is to help my sisters who are ill and suffering. I come to help them recover their health and also to help those who are victims of sexual violence. To help them survive because they have gone through difficult stages.”
20 NOVEMBER 2024, FARCHANA REFUGEE CAMP
24. Wide shot, a woman wearing a yellow head scarf sits on a rock outside a tent
25. Wide shot, aerial shot of the camp
26. Wide shot, women sit together listening to a talk
27. Wide shot, UNFPA midwives speak to a group of women, pointing to an illustrated diagram
28. Med shot, a UNFPA worker speaks to a tent of women
29. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Souat Oumar, Thirty-nine-year old, Women’s Community Leader:
“We are here at Farchana Camp. As women, the most pressing challenge we face is the delivery challenges. Here at the camp, we don’t have any hospital and we don’t have an ambulance vehicle to rescue pregnant women. We struggle with these pregnant women to deliver. Sometimes they come to me personally at home. If I have some money, I order a rickshaw to take them to a hospital. Sometimes the woman might be bleeding seriously or has a miscarriage or other fatal issues. From that, some women might pass away.”
30. Med shot, a midwife speaks while holding an illustration
31. Med shot, a midwife speaks to members of the camp while holding examples of feminine hygiene products and types of contraceptives
32. Close up, a woman holds a box of birth control pills
33. Wide shot, the entrance to a UNFPA post-natal Centre tent
34. Med shot, women sit outside of a building, one woman is holding a young baby on her lap
35. Wide shot, two women lie on medical beds inside a room
36. SOUNDBITE (French) Tongué Prisca, UNFPA midwife:
“I am based here at this center. These are the activities I manage, I oversee childbirth, prenatal consultations, postnatal consultations, curative consultations. Essentially, everything relating to childbirth here at the center. Here at the center, women benefit from services such as prenatal and postnatal care, family counseling, support for gender-based violence, and curative consultations.”
37. Wide shot, a woman walks to the entrance of a UNHCR refugee building
38. Wide shot, drone shot from above the UN collective buildings
39. Med shot, a group of young women and girls sit on the floor of a tent, one girl is standing
40. Wide shot, young women and girls sit on the floor of the tent, facing a group of UNFPA workers
41. Med shot, young women and girls sit on the floor of a tent, while one girl wearing orange stands and speaks
42. Med shot, two women stand in the foreground and between them, young girls can be seen sitting in the background
Chad has taken in more than 700,000 refugees fleeing conflict and the hunger that comes with it in Sudan. In October, some 60,000 Sudanese arrived in Chad following an escalation of fighting in the Darfurs, as well as the retreat of floodwaters. Chad has long been a home to refugees fleeing conflicts in neighbouring countries, but this is the largest refugee influx in Chad’s history. The total Sudanese refugee population in Chad has reached more than 1.1 million.
Close to 90 percent of arrivals since the Sudan war broke out in April 2023, are women and children, arriving in desperate conditions, carrying few possessions, but scarred by the unimaginable violence they have survived or witnessed. A staggering 71 per cent of refugees report surviving human rights violations in Sudan while fleeing–like 17-year-old Ahlam who was shot three times and witnessed her sister being badly beaten.
Adré used to be a small border town of 40,000 people, but its population has swelled sevenfold to 230,000 Sudanese – putting immense pressure on already overstretched resources and basic services as UNFPA and other agencies face critical funding shortfalls. UNFPA’s 2024 Chad humanitarian appeal of $23.6 million was only 36 percent funded, meaning women went without supplies for safe births, and counselling services for sexual violence survivors was limited.
Farchana is one of the pre-existing camps in eastern Chad where new arrivals are relocated from Adré to relieve pressure at the border. It was opened in 2004 to shelter refugees fleeing war in Sudan. The camp is chronically overcrowded with a lack of infrastructure and basic services. Despite best efforts, health care is threadbare and there is no hospital in the camp or vehicle to transport emergency cases to the nearest facility. For pregnant women who experience complications, childbirth can turn into a deadly threat.
UNFPA has deployed 248 humanitarian midwives across Chad, including to displacement camps such as Chari-Baguirmi. They are trained to deal with obstetric emergencies and support survivors of violence; and are equipped them with supplies for safe births and the clinical management of rape. Soliri Adete, 32, a UNFPA-supported midwife on the maternity ward at the district hospital in Adré feels it is her duty to provide care to the women on her ward. “Every day I come into the hospital to help my sisters who are ill and suffering. To help them survive.”
In 2025 UNFPA needs $27.8 million to serve the most critical needs of women and girls.
