🌍🙏 Chad Need Kōkua: Food, Refugees, and Mo’ Trouble 🇹🇩🌾🏚️
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Chad stay making da kine big call out to da whole world fo’ help feed da local peeps and all da new refugees, including 460,000 peeps running from da beef in next door Sudan. 🏃♀️🌍 According to da United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP), get ova two million peeps in Chad wea stay facing da real kine serious food insecurity, calling da situation baddah den bad. 😟🍽️
Madeleine Alingue, da one in charge of Chad’s money and friends outside, wen talk story at da United Nations in Geneva on Monday. She stay saying dat da international ohana gotta “make mo’ strong and back up da plan fo’ help peeps, wea get plenny needs.” 🤝🌐 She like see more peeps give, not just da usual ones like United States and European Union. She say da stability Chad gotta make sure stay solid “gotta wake up da new peeps fo’ help.”
Violet Kakyomya, da UN’s head hancho in Chad, wen share dat da 2023 plan fo’ help da big land – wea dey wen change aftah all da refugees wen come from Sudan – only wen get like 25 percent of da $920 million dey wen ask fo’. 💰📉
Chad Stay Ready fo’ Mo’ Refugees Escaping ‘Brah, So Bad’ Violence in Sudan
Millions No Can Grind
Da UN wen talk, get like 5.7 million peeps wea no can get enough food in Chad – wea stay ranked da numba three least developed place in da world – mean, hard fo’ peeps fo’ make sure dey get one meal a day. Plus, get 1.7 million keiki undah 5 stay going through real bad malnutrition. 😢👶
Da head guy of WFP in Chad, Pierre Honnorat, he wen say, “Ho, da situation stay all buss up…da money going pau in December, den we really no mo’ nothing left,” cuz da UN group already wen have to cut down da kine help dey give. 🍚📉 Now, da WFP only can help 270,000 of da 600,000 refugees wea wen stay Chad befo’ all dis Sudan kine trouble start.
On top of dat, Chad also stay dealing wit health kine emergencies and da kine climate change effects, and all dis togetha affecting like seven million of da 18 million peeps wea live dea. 🌡️🏥 Plus, da not stable kine situation and all da fighting around dea wen hit Chad “straight on,” which wen take in 460,000 refugees from Sudan since April.
No forget, da peeps dea stay facing all kine oddah stuff too. Get times wea da food stay scarce, da water stay hard fo’ find, and all da while, dey gotta take care da ohana and da aina. 🌱💧 No easy, yeah? Da locals stay trying fo’ figure out how fo’ survive and make ends meet while all dis going on.
All dis stuff going down in Chad, plus da new peeps coming in from Sudan, make da situation mo’ tough. Da leaders, da communities, and all da peeps dea gotta pull togetha, and dey hoping da world can kokua too. 🤙🌍
Dey stay hoping fo’ aloha and support from all around da world, so dat dey can make it through dis hard time and come out strong on da oddah side. 💪❤️ So, da situation stay critical, and Chad stay hoping dat da call fo’ help going be heard and dat togetha, can make one bettah future fo’ everyone. 🌅🙏
NOW IN ENGLISH
🌍🙏 Chad Seeks Assistance: Food, Refugees, and More Challenges 🇹🇩🌾🏚️
Chad is urgently appealing to the global community for assistance in addressing food scarcity and the growing refugee crisis, which includes 460,000 individuals escaping conflict in neighboring Sudan. 🏃♀️🌍 According to the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP), over two million people in Chad are grappling with severe food insecurity, labeling the situation as catastrophic. 😟🍽️
Madeleine Alingue, Chad’s Minister of Economic Prosperity and International Partnerships, spoke at the United Nations in Geneva on Monday. She emphasized that the international community must “strengthen and support the humanitarian response plan, which has substantial needs.” 🤝🌐 She urged a broader spectrum of donors to contribute, not just traditional partners like the United States and the European Union, stating that the stability Chad “must guarantee in the region” should prompt new contributors to step forward.
Violet Kakyomya, the UN’s Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Chad, disclosed that the 2023 humanitarian response plan for the extensive nation – revised due to the influx of refugees from Sudan – has only received about 25 percent of the requested $920 million. 💰📉
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Millions Face Food Insecurity
The UN reports that approximately 5.7 million people in Chad are food insecure – the country is ranked as the third least developed globally – indicating that individuals struggle to secure even one meal a day. Additionally, 1.7 million children under 5 years of age are experiencing acute malnutrition. 😢👶
Pierre Honnorat, the WFP’s Director in Chad, emphasized, “The situation is catastrophic… funding ceases in December, then we really have nothing left,” as the UN agency has already had to curtail its aid distribution. 🍚📉 The WFP can now only support 270,000 of the 600,000 refugees that were in Chad before the crisis in neighboring Sudan emerged.
Furthermore, Chad is also contending with health crises and the impacts of climate change, collectively affecting approximately seven million of the country’s 18 million residents. 🌡️🏥 Additionally, regional instability and conflicts have had “a direct impact” on Chad, which has taken in 460,000 refugees from Sudan since April.
Beyond these challenges, the residents face issues of food scarcity, difficulty in accessing water, and the responsibility of caring for their families and land. 🌱💧 It’s not an easy situation. Locals are trying to figure out survival strategies while dealing with these challenges.
The convergence of these adversities in Chad, coupled with the influx of refugees from Sudan, exacerbates the situation. The leadership, communities, and residents must unite, and they hope the world will assist too. 🤙🌍
They hope for compassion and support from around the world to navigate this difficult period and emerge resilient on the other side. 💪❤️ The situation is critical, and Chad hopes that their plea for assistance will be acknowledged, and that collectively, a better future can be crafted for all. 🌅🙏
