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Chad Relief Foundation Newsletter
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A few people, a few dollars, a few trips and Chad Relief has completed ten projects in aid of refugees from the CAR living in five camps in southern Chad. Here are the highlights from our
May 2011 mission to Chad.
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While in Chad we completed arrangements (pending funding) for the installation of solar power for lighting and refrigeration at Yaroungou, Moula and Maro health centers. We interviewed a former teacher to act as field staff for CRF in Gore. We laid the groundwork for a program of Vitamin A distribution in the three Gore camps. We discussed a program of assistance to the district hospital in Gore. We inspected the solar installations at Beureuh and Dosseye.
We delivered $900 worth of medicines and medical equipment (donated to CRF by DRI) to the district hospital in Gore.
We were present at the inauguration of the CRF funded football field in Gore. We negotiated an arrangement to fund football shoes for the three girls' teams in the Gore league.
We laid the groundwork for funding the purchase of books and teacher training materials for primary schools in the Maro area, for the construction of a football field serving the Koy and Moyo camps, and the provision of subsidies to youth committees in the three Gore camps.
We reviewed the wheelchair/tricycle repair scheme underway at the three Gore camps.
We reviewed the program of protection of women and children in the Gore camps with officials in N'Djamena and Gore and noted the apparent positive changes in attitudes toward domestic and sexual violence.
We established a procedure at Ecobank, N'Djamena that should eliminate any hitches and delays in wire transfers of funds to Chad.
We delivered 44 football uniforms donated by the Santa Barbara Soccer Club to the school administration at Beureuh. Those uniforms were stolen the next night. A police investigation is underway.
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