Post by Concern Worldwide

Chad is one of the world’s poorest countries. Through June and August 2025, the ‘lean season’ between harvests, approximately 3.36 million people in Chad experienced severe food insecurity. What does this mean? Families started missing meals, leading to more cases of acute malnutrition. Young children suffer the most. A lack of clean water makes a bad situation worse. Without clean water, for both drinking and washing, children fall ill. Suffering fever, diarrhoea and vomiting, they rapidly lose weight. Their lives hang in the balance. Concern, in partnership with the European Union, is improving access to clean water in Sila Province, Eastern Chad. Concern has constructed twenty-one new water points, and rehabilitated fifteen more, benefitting just over 60,000 people, including Hilwa. Concern also distributed 1,200 clean water and hygiene kits. These kits contain soap, chlorine tablets (for water treatment), jerrycans, menstrual products, and other items. Hissene Hassane Abdoulaye, Community Facilitator with Concern, says; "before the intervention of Concern, there were a lot of water diseases, such as malaria, diarrhoea, typhoid, and so on. Now, all these kinds of diseases have already disappeared." @eu_echo

Video Content