CORD partnership programme: preliminary report on the counselling training in Chad

Network for Africa’s counselling programme aims to give Darfuri refugees living in Chadian refugee camps culturally specific and sensitive trauma counselling training and support.

Based on successful models in both Rwanda and Northern Uganda, Network for Africa’s programme in Chad is expected to run over a minimum period of 2 years and train lay members of the Darfuri community in post-trauma counselling with the long-term aim of creating a self-sustaining environment for peer counselling within the refugee camps.

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Since the beginning of the Darfur crisis in 2003 during which time up to 400,000 Darfuris have been killed, a quarter of a million refugees have fled west into neighbouring Chad.

They live in squalid camps, traumatised by the violence they witnessed, scared of the Chadian authorities, and frustrated by their inability to return to their homes and their normal lives. Now that the Sudanese regime has expelled sixteen humanitarian groups, many more refugees are expected to pour across the border in search of food, water and safety.

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