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Bahr el Gazel Board of Directors N'Djamena Ouaddai

Year-end report for 2022

Association “Service au Sahel Tchad”
BP 3363

Introduction

This activity report brings together reports from the three provinces where we work: N’Djamena, Bahr el Gazel and Ouaddaï.

Each province has specific needs, so our activities are different depending on the context. But education and development remain our two pillars, according to the vision of the association:

“Reaching and transforming communities using education and development.”

We thank all those who have contributed through their efforts to the advancement of our common goals.

Table of Contents

  1. “Markas al Nour” Culture and Training Centre – N’Djamena
  2. “Kurutini Centre” Education and Development Centre – Bahr el Gazel
  3. Development and Humanitarian Projects – Ouaddai
  4. Conclusion

1. “Markas al Nour” Culture and Training Centre

2. “Kurutini Centre” Education and Development Centre

3. Development and Humanitarian Projects – Ouaddai

4. Conclusion

2022 has been a stable year for the association. Activities in each of the three provinces have advanced and been refined to better serve the local populations.

In N’Djamena, as in the Bahr el Gazel, several hundred people were able to take advantage of educational courses. In the Ouaddai as in the Bahr el Gazel, several communities have benefited from better access to drinking water. In both the Bahr el Gazel and in N’Djamena, dozens of people have been equipped with training to improve health care.

Through our various activities, the association remains faithful to its vision:

“Reaching and transforming communities using education and development.”

For additional information, visit our website www.serviceausahel.org.

N’Djamena, April 6, 2023

The Secretary General of SAS

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Bahr el Gazel Board of Directors Development Hadjer Hadid Health Kurutini Center Markas al Nour N'Djamena Ouaddai

2021 Year-End Report

Introduction

This year-end report is a combination of updates from each of our projects. Together, they show the diversity of our activities as well as our desire to achieve our common vision:

“Reaching and transforming communities using education and development.”

The slogan of our association

We would like to thank all those who contributed during the past year to our common objectives.

Map of the primary locations where we work

Map showing the primary locations of the year-end report
The places where we worked in 2021

Report sections

The different sections of the year-end report can be downloaded below.




Conclusion

“There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens.” Ecclesiastes 3:1

2021 saw a new start for Markas al Nour in N’Djamena with the appointment of a new director in August. Classes and other activities were less in the Bahr el Gazel in 2021 compared to 2020. Water and community-led total sanitation continued in the Ouaddai with the same rhythm as before.

The transformation we would like to see in coming, but has not yet been achieved, so we will continue to work hard in the coming years. In the meantime, we hope that you appreciate reading the report about what we’ve accomplished in 2021.


N’Djamena, the 27th of March 2022

The Secretary General of SAS

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Bahr el Gazel Board of Directors Development Hadjer Hadid Kurutini Center Markas al Nour N'Djamena Ouaddai

2020 Annual Report

This report gives details about the work our association did in 2020. All the reports are in French.

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Conclusion

2020 had plenty of success and challenges. The biggest challenge was the financial crisis which forced the closure of our Markas al Nour education center. Nonetheless, the center reopened its doors in order to keep offering high quality instruction. Our activities in Moussoro and Hadjer Hadid were slowed down by covid-19, but were still able to adapt and continue. We will continue working together on our common objectives in education and development in 2021.

Here are the number of beneficiaries from our activities in 2020:

ProjectBeneficiaries
Markas al Nour – N’Djamena288
Education classes – Moussoro203
Animal health videos – Moussoro120
Water, health, and mapping – Hadjer Hadid3800
Sewing and distributing masks – Hadjer Hadid800
Health and cultural videos – Hadjer Hadid100
Total5311

We would like to thank all those who helped us continue advancing our goals.

The Secretary General for Service au Sahel

N’Djamena

22 April 2021

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Hadjer Hadid Ouaddai

End of Project Report for Tawisa 3

Executive Summary

Tawisa 3 was a project that ran from July 2019 – July 2020. The project has completed mapping and survey for the Chokoyan Canton of the Ouaddai State of Eastern Chad. This included mapping and surveying over 184 villages and their improved and unimproved water sources. Printed maps are being shared with all stakeholders in the region and detailed data has been provided to the government to use in its geospatial database.

Additionally, a pump repair program was initiated in three villages within the Chokoyan Canton. These villages had existing broken pumps. Service au Sahel ran a two-day water committee training, introducing cost replacement schedules, record keeping, management of a cash box and savings goals for maintenance and repair, in each of these villages. After the training the pump was repaired. Monitoring visits have been conducted each month post the repair, tracking and working with the village to implement the training received. These monitoring visits are continuing into the next Tawisa project until the full year of monitoring is completed.

Additionally, water committees and villages who received new wells during the previous Tawisa 2 project were monitored on a quarterly basis, encouraging them to save for future repairs that will be needed for their new well. The Tawisa 3 project finished within budget, having spent 92% of total funds.

The project report is attached.

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Abeche Bahr el Gazel Board of Directors Development Hadjer Hadid Health Kurutini Center Markas al Nour N'Djamena Ouaddai

2019 Annual Report

This report summarizes all the work that the association has done in 2019. All the reports are in French.

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Conclusion

2019 was a difficult year for the association. Even with many successes, the general financial climate in Chad slowed down several of our projects. Nonetheless, our work in education and development impacted thousands of people:

ProjetBénéficiaires
Markas al Nour818
Cours décentralisés49
Markaz Attafahum13
Projets de Développement – Hadjer Hadid516
Projets de Développement – Moussoro1075
Total2471

We would like to thank all those who helped us continue advancing our goals.

The Secretary General for Service au Sahel

N’Djamena

11 July, 2020

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Hadjer Hadid Ouaddai

Tawisa 3 – 3rd Quarter Report

The latest update on the Tawisa 3 project is now available. A summary is that

  • Data collection in the Ouadi Hamra region has been finished. A final map has been printed in N’Djamena.
  • A total of 27 pumps have been located in the region with 25 of them broken when surveyed. All villages with broken pumps have been invited to participate in the program.
  • Villages who received new wells and water committee training in the previous Tawisa project were followed up with again during the 3rd quarter.
  • The SAS compound has continued to be maintained and improved.
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Hadjer Hadid Ouaddai

Tawisa 3 1st Quarter Report

The latest news from the Tawisa 3 project being run in Hadjer Hadid are in the below report.

  • Data collection has started slowly in Ouadi Hamra
  • Pump repair has been delayed until late October / early November
  • Follow-up with Tawisa 2 water committees has shown some successes but also some challenges
  • The SAS compound in HH has been reorganized for more clarity
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Hadjer Hadid Ouaddai

Project in the Hadjer Hadid region

Chad is located in Central Africa. The country is one of the poorest and most underprivileged in the world, ranking 184 out of 188 on the 2015 Human Development Index. The population of 11.5 million is rapidly growing and is very young (45% of people are under 15 years).

SAS’s project is in the Hadjer Hadid region. These communities have multiple needs. There is high infant mortality (124 per 1,000 births) and low life expectancy 51.6 female/48.6 male. Over 30% of children suffer from chronic malnutrition. Around half of girls receive no primary school education. Factors contributing to these problems include:

  • Low rainfall which limits the availability of easily accessible groundwater. People are therefore forced to use unclean water sources. Less than 20% of the region has access to safe drinking water.

  • A prevalence of waterborne diseases, diarrhoea, cholera, hepatitis and typhoid associated with drinking unclean water

  • A lack of basic hygiene and sanitation practices (over 75% of people defecate in the open). This results in widespread disease transmission and high infant mortality rates.

  • Girls do most water fetching. This often takes several hours’ daily, making school attendance impossible.

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Hadjer Hadid Ouaddai

Projects in Hadjer Hadid

SAS has projects running in Hadjer Hadid, Eastern Chad. This is located in on the edge of the homeland of the Masalit people, who historically have spanned the Sudan-Chad border. The 2003 Darfur War resulted in widespread displacement and the arrival of over 400,000 refugees in Chad, located in 13 different refugee camps along the Darfur border. Several of these refugee camps are located in near to the town of Hadjer Hadid (population approx. 10,000) where SAS have their operational base in the East.

These camps have existed for over ten years in what has developed into a protracted refugee situation (PRS), and they now more closely resemble mid-sized towns rather that camps. Furthermore, worsening circumstances in Darfur mean that there is little prospect of their return being feasible.  There is therefore a critical need for development initiatives within these refugee camps such that they are transformed into viable, resilient, peaceful & sustainable communities. Furthermore, surrounding Chadian villages have taken on additional burden of accommodating refugee communities and they too are struggling with subsistence livelihoods and chronic vulnerability, which requires action to address.

For more detail on our work, see the map of the region surrounding Hadjer Hadid.

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Abeche

Markaz Attafahum – Centre of Understanding

We started this language centre in October of 2015, and called it ‘Markaz Attafahum’ which means ‘Centre of Understanding’ in Arabic.

Our hope is that this centre will for many years to come be a hub of learning and deepening understanding: that both expatriates and Chadian nationals would gain deep insight into the languages and cultures of Chad.

Teachers and Tutors at a ceremony

This means:

  1. training up tutors and teachers so that we had high quality instruction;
  2. developing and compiling resources in the local languages for students to use;
  3. setting up a professional and practical place to have lessons and to study;
  4. develop a language learning community whereby we encourage and support one another mutually in our language learning.

Teachers and Tutors at a Ceremony