UNHCR/H.Caux Chad-Sudan Emergency The UN Refugee Agency is battling the elements, massive logistics obstacles and daunting security challenges to help hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.  How bad is it? Over the past three years nearly 200,000 innocents have been killed – massacred, raped, or become victims of disease.  Two million have been forced from their homes, including 220,000 Sudanese refugees who have fled across the border.  Marauding Janjaweed gunmen wielding whips and guns are sending villagers running for their lives. Nearly 60 percent of these innocents are children. The atrocities committed in Darfur – throwing children into bonfires, spoiling wells with corpses, stealing all livestock,  setting crops and homes ablaze – occasionally reach our front pages. But the scope of these horrors is steadily growing. UNHCR field staff are putting their lives at risk every day to save refugee lives. To support UNHCR’s life-saving work click here: Chad-Sudan Emergency In Chad refugees fleeing across the border from Darfur arrive in a remote, desert region where resources, particularly water, are scarce.  Since early 2004 UNHCR has mounted a major logistics operation to move the vast majority of these refugees to camps at a safer distance from the volatile border. In some of the most desolate terrain on earth, UNHCR and its partners are virtually building small villages for thousands of people from the ground up -- everything from family shelters, clinics, schools, to latrines wells and other infrastructure.  In the face of danger, UNHCR will continue to provide basic life-saving assistance and monitor the fragile security situation along the border.  To read the diary of a UNHCR field worker in Chad, click here: Diary from the Field Across the border within strife-torn Darfur, Sudan, UNHCR is providing protection and community service activities for those internally displaced by the ongoing violence.  At least 180,000 people have died, victims of violence, hunger and disease.  Despite the dire security situation, UNHCR is providing live-saving assistance to thousands of victims, developing women and youth centers to address protection, social and legal issues.  For women, these centers will also address health needs and provide support to victims of sexual violence.  Activities include also include education and income generation activities.  To help victims of the violence in Darfur click here.
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