Raouda, a participant in HIAS Chad's income-generating activities program, sells vegetables at the Farchana market in June 2026 (Saam Kouakaine for HIAS).

Chad

Raouda, a participant in HIAS Chad's income-generating activities program, sells vegetables at the Farchana market in June 2026 (Saam Kouakaine for HIAS).

Founded

2005

Supporting Sudanese Refugees

Since April 2023, the civil war in Sudan has caused the world’s gravest humanitarian crisis. Fighting between the Sudanese government and a paramilitary organization known as the Rapid Support Forces have displaced over 14 million people throughout the country. More than a million Sudanese have crossed into Chad, settling in refugee camps along the country’s eastern border. There, they have joined an existing population of refugees, some of whom have resided in the camps for nearly 20 years.

Amid this extraordinarily challenging context, HIAS continues to provide services to displaced people throughout the country — as we have for more than two decades.

Violence, political instability, and climate change in Sudan, Niger, South Sudan, Nigeria, Cameroon, and the Central African Republic continues to drive people across the border into Chad, compounding the protracted crises in the east, the south, and the Lake regions of the country.

Since mid-April 2023, more than one million people have crossed into Chad from Sudan, fleeing the war and renewed ethnic violence in Darfur. Now, Chad hosts more than 1.8 million displaced people. Though Chad welcomes refugees, the country has extremely limited resources to meet their basic needs and facilitate durable solutions.

Our Work

Working with refugees since 2005, HIAS Chad focuses on strengthening community-based protection networks; promoting and strengthening peaceful coexistence between refugees and host communities; providing mental health support; working to end violence against women and girls; distributing food and non-food items; and implementing “permagardening” projects. HIAS also maintains its partnership with the government and other humanitarian actors to welcome refugees by providing protection and addressing basic needs in emergency situations.

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Impact

HIAS Chad works with Sudanese women who have survived violence, through economic assistance and mental health care, in the Alacha camp on January 18, 2025 (Kouakaine Moundi/HIAS Chad).

HIAS Chad works with Sudanese women who have survived violence, through economic assistance and mental health care, in the Alacha camp on January 18, 2025 (Kouakaine Moundi/HIAS Chad).

Sudanese Refugees Forge New Lives in Chad

Three years into the civil war in Sudan, 14 million people have been displaced both within the country and to its neighboring countries—including Chad. Today, Chad hosts 1.8 million displaced people, the majority of whom have arrived since the conflict in Sudan began, placing immense pressure on communities that were already managing scarce resources.

HIAS has worked in Chad for more than two decades, providing vital support to refugees, internally displaced people, and host communities in camps along the eastern border with Sudan. As the war fuels what has become the world’s largest displacement crisis, the demand for assistance grows daily. Severe cuts to U.S. and European humanitarian funding over the past year have further strained an already overstretched system, leaving refugees increasingly vulnerable to hunger, disease, and violence.

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