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For over five years, The UN Refugee Agency has been at the forefront of bringing humanitarian aid and relief to the hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region. In one of the world’s worst refugee crises, security concerns and massive logistic obstacles persist, yet UNHCR staff continues battling the elements to help the displaced.

How bad is it?

Since the violence began in 2003, nearly 300,000 innocents have been killed – massacred, raped, or become victims of disease. Two million have been forced from their homes, including 250,000 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.

Eastern Chad

In eastern Chad, refugees fleeing across the border from Darfur arrive in a remote, desert region where resources are scarce and terrain is desolate. For over five years UNHCR has led a major logistics operation to move the vast majority of these refugees to safety and provide some basic human rights in line with the Geneva Convention. Partnering with relief organizations from around the world, UNHCR has built small villages, now home to more than 250,000 people, from the ground up – everything from family shelters, and clinics to latrines, wells, and other infrastructure. Now, in an effort to improve the condition of these war torn refugees, UNHCR is working tirelessly to build additional schools so that every refugee child may receive an education. In the face of danger, UNHCR will continue to provide basic life-saving assistance and monitor the fragile security situation along the volatile border.

Darfur

Across the border within strife-torn Darfur, Sudan, UNHCR is providing protection and community services not only for those internally displaced, but also victims of the violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DAR) and Central African Republic (CAR). At least 2.7 million Sudanese have been forced from their homes and thousands of refugees from the DAR and CAR have crossed the border to escape the crises in their own homelands. Despite the dire security situation, UNHCR is providing live-saving assistance to thousands of victims while 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.

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