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STORY: UNFPA / CHAD FLOODS DISPLACEMENT
TRT: 04:53
SOURCE: UNFPA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNFPA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 NOVEMBER 2024, CHARI BAGUIRM IDP CAMP, N’DJAMENA, CHAD
1. Med shot, woman and a young boy collect water from a communal tap
2. Close up, bucket collects water from a communal tap
3. Wide shot, group of children sit outside a tent and a young boy walks past with a jug of water
4. Wide shot, men, women and children walk around the camp
5. Wide shot, children play and run between the tent ropes
6. Med shot, a young child holds a cup
7. Med shot, young woman walks with a bag of wood balanced on her head
8. Med shot, clothes hang to dry on the ropes between tents
9. Med shot, pot cooks on a small fire outside a tent
10. Close up, a woman’s hands as she separates greens from one bowl to another
11. Close up, pan from the bowl of greens to the woman who is sorting them
12. Wide shot, three children gather water at a communal water pump
13. Wide shot, a young girl carries a container jug of water towards the camp
14. Med shot, boy kneels down to drink water from the communal water pump while another by pumps the water for him
15. Wide shot, a woman sits outside a blue building with her children
16. Wide, buildings submerged by flood water
17. Wide shot, a house submerged by flood water
18. Aerial shot, flooded area, with submerged houses visible
19. Aerial shot, flooded area, with submerged houses visible
20. Med shot, woman scoops fish out of a pot and into a pan to cook
21. Med shot, UNFPA midwife leads a woman and her baby to a seat
22. Wide shot, UNFPA midwife wraps a baby in a blanket
23. Close up, a baby sleeping as she is held by her mother
24. Med shot, UNFPA midwife speaks to a mother
25. Wide shot, a UNFPA midwife sits on a mat inside a tent with a mother, her baby and her two young boys
26. Med shot, UNFPA midwife sits in the foreground with a mother and her baby in focus in the in the background.
27. Med shot, woman rocks her baby while a UNFPA midwife speaks to her
28. Wide shot, women hold their babies and are welcomed into a UNFPA labeled tent by a midwife
29. Med shot, UNFPA midwife picks up a baby and wraps it in a blanket while the mother sits beside her, smiling
30. Med shot, woman stands in the foreground, looking towards a flooded house in the background
31. SOUNDBITE (French) Gloria Nadgitssen, displaced woman:
“This is my house. The water came in. Now I live here. There is no other way, but we make it work.”
32. SOUNDBITE (French) Gloria Nadgitessen, displaced woman:
“This is where I live. Here is where I sleep. So, this is it. This is all I eat. The water ruined everything, the rice, the money, the gumbo. Everything, everything is in the water.”
33. Wide shot, a group of people stand around a water pump collecting water
34. SOUNDBITE (French) Florence Denemadji, midwife:
“I recently came to this disaster-affected site, and I have been here for three months. We, the midwives, applaud UNFPA. UNFPA trains us for emergency situations like these. We are well-trained for emergencies before going into the field. I was trained on GBV (gender-based violence) cases.
35. Wide shot, people walking in front of the tents in the camp
36. SOUNDBITE (French) Florence Denemadji, midwife:
“If there are any shortages or needs, we call our supervisors, and they send everything immediately. We complete our work and don't face many difficulties.”
37. Wide shot, two young girls sit beside a pot cooking on a fire
38. SOUNDBITE (French) Florence Denemadji, midwife:
“Oh, I love my job as a woman. I love my job, being around babies all the time, being with women. As a woman and as a mother, I love always being around babies. I really enjoy my job and being with women in the field!”
39. Aerial shot, tents in camp, people walking
40. SOUNDBITE (French) Lucille Denembaye, midwife:
“This flood has really threatened these women. Among them, I met a woman whose husband infected her with HIV. She is a mother of five children, she is twenty-seven years old, and her house has collapsed on her. Now she cannot do anything for her children, she can’t do anything. She has no home, not even food. So, this situation is really horrible for her.”
41. Med shot, two young girls
42. SOUNDBITE (French) Chanceline Milamem, displaced woman:
“Do you see me? I became thin like this because there is no food. If there was food, I would eat, and the milk would come for the baby, and the milk would come for the baby, but there’s no food, and the baby is getting thinner. I’m losing weight all the time. So, it’s the midwives who have taken good care of me.”
43. Aerial shot, camp
44. SOUNDBITE (French) Chanceline Milamem, displaced woman:
“They are very kind. They’re not mean, they’re nice to me. I explain where I feel pain, and they give me medicine. They took care of me until I delivered in good time, in their arms, all of it.”
45. Wide shot, lines of tents, people walking
According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), since July 2024, catastrophic flooding in Chad has severely impacted close to two million people – the worst in living memory.
Homes have been washed away, and livelihoods destroyed. As the flood waters rose rapidly, many families fled to higher ground, taking whatever they could with them.
No part of the country has been spared.
Many people have lost everything and more than 13,000 have been displaced, forced to seek refuge in makeshift camps.
Around the world, the climate emergency is increasing the severity and intensity of floods, droughts and cyclones, weakening health, education, and agricultural systems and destroying people’s lives and livelihoods.
Many countries that are hardest hit and least prepared for climate change, such as Chad, are already grappling with severe humanitarian crises.
Residents of Chad's capital, N'Djamena, were left scrambling when the River Chari and its tributary the Logone reached record highs brought on by torrential rains in October that submerged entire neighbourhoods.
Around 4,000 people sought refuge in Chari-Baguirmi displacement camp, in the Toukra area of Chad’s capital, N’Djamena.
The floods in Chad have increased dangers for women and girls, including those in Chari-Baguirmi displacement camp.
Abruptly cut off from healthcare, food, shelter and clean drinking water, childbirth became potentially deadly for pregnant women about to deliver, and mothers suffering from malnutrition were unable to produce milk for their newborns.
Risks of violence and exploitation also increased, including for adolescent girls as schools shuttered.
UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, is trying to fill the gaps.
Some 248 humanitarian midwives have been deployed across Chad, including to displacement camps such as Chari-Baguirmi.
They are trained to deal with obstetric emergencies and support survivors of violence.
UNFPA has also equipped them with supplies for safe births and the clinical management of rape.
The COP29 climate conference that concluded on 24 November 2024 reached key global agreements on climate action, including a new collective goal for climate-related financing to reach USD 300 billion per year by 2035.
These agreements must now be put into action and include earmarked financing for women and girls affected by disasters in vulnerable climate-risk countries such as Chad.
Investments in adaptation and resilience measures must also protect women and girls from future climate disasters.
This is what climate justice looks like.
