From North to South, East to West, preventing malnutrition across Chad
Investing in nutrition in the earliest days of life matters
The European Union supported project targeted 40,000 children with Severe Acute Malnutrition in 15 priority regions across the country. Improving infant and young child nutrition is fundamental to guaranteeing children a brighter and more equitable future.

📍🚑 ➡️ Internal Displaced People site of Magi, Lake Region - In Western Chad, 130,000 people have fled Boko Haram related violence. EU-supported mobile clinics are working around the clock to improve access to health and nutrition services in hard-to-reach displaced population.

📍🚑 ➡️ Abeche, Eastern Region of Ouaddai - “Amsaden is growing up very healthy thanks to the nutrition advices I received when she was malnourished 2 years ago. I keep on feeding her with healthy food.” Kalsoum Ahmat is 21 and her daughter Amsadem, 2 and half years “

📍🚑 ➡️ Mao, Kanem region, Sahel Belt - The Sahel belt has one of the highest acute under-nutrition rates in the world, with Chad among the most affected. In 2017, over 220,000 children aged 6 to 59 months are expected to suffer from Severe Acute Malnutrition. The EU supports the the provision of therapeutic food and other required therapeutic supplies which allow the treatment of children suffering form severe acute malnutrition.

📍🚑 ➡️ Goré, Southern Chad - Thanks to this new grant of the European Union, UNICEF supports local health centers in the Central African Republic (CAR) refugee and returnee sites also benefitting the local communities. ECHO has stepped up to help UNICEF is reinforcing national capacities to provide quality malnutrition services.

📍🚑 ➡️ N’Djamena, Capital of Chad - Achta Abakar, 32 and her son Khalid,3 in a Therapeutic Feeding Centre of N’Djamena assisting a session on breastfeeding. The young boy was hospitalized for 6 days for malnutrition and medical complications. Here, mothers also learn about good nutrition practices.
Malnutrition has irreversible consequences on the cognitive and physical growth of children, which continues into adulthood. On the islands of the Lake Chad, mobile clinics are riding boats and donkeys to bring medicines, vaccines and therapeutic nutritive food to combat and prevent malnutrition.
Since 2016, the European Union’s humanitarian aid and civil protection department has supported UNICEF response to the nutrition crisis in the Sahel belt in Chad with an additional funding of Euro 4 million.

Thanks to this new grant, UNICEF could support the scale-up of Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition for 40,000 additionnal children in 543 health facilities, and ensure that additional 350 health staff have the capacity to provide quality malnutrition treatment.
The European Union is UNICEF Chad’s leading humanitarian donor and among the five most important donors of UNICEF in Chad.
