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In the Lake Chad region, Help improves people's living conditions by distributing relief supplies, expanding access to water and sanitation, and promoting agricultural measures. As displacement is a frequent occurrence in the region, our local partners respond directly in such cases and provide those affected with shelter, relief supplies and food.
In the province of Ouaddai in eastern Chad, we focus on improving the income of young people and women. There, we support around 50 agricultural cooperatives, in which 30 smallholders grow, process and market vegetables together. In accordance with our principle of the assistance towards self-reliance, we equip the cooperatives with seeds, fertilizer, tools and equipment, provide the necessary infrastructure such as wells, pumps and storage facilities, and train the smallholders in agricultural practices and financial literacy. The project participants are then able to earn enough money from the sale of their harvest to provide for their families.
In the construction of wells in Chad, we largely rely on solar wells and train water committees to take care of the maintenance of the wells. In the Am Nabak refugee camp in the east of the country, we opened Chad's largest solar-powered water plant in 2013 and were even awarded the German Solar Prize for it.
Since 2012, we have been working closely with our partner organization AHTD in Chad, which was founded by employees of the former Help office in the country and is now one of Chad's largest aid organizations.