Darfur

Joyce Kanja left HIAS earlier this year after working as the Chad country director for 11 years.

“I am able to cover my family’s basic needs and share my produce with my close ones, just like the old times in Sudan.”

Chad is currently home to nearly half a million refugees and asylum seekers. Many have lived as refugees for over a decade, and it is uncertain when or if they will ever be able to return home. As funds continue to be stretched thin in 2016, the World Food Program was forced to scale back its food assistance to refugees there.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees is urging the West to do more to alleviate the largest refugee crisis since World War II. HIAS agrees. These are extraordinary times, and the West needs an extraordinary response.