The only Jewish presence in Chad appears to be HIAS, a Jewish organization working on the ground in refugee camps.

HIAS provides trauma counseling and social services in 12 of the country’s 13 refugee camps, helping those who have fled persecution and genocide to rebuild their lives in safety and dignity.

Chad’s hospitals are grossly undersupplied and understaffed. There are just three doctors, nurses and/or midwives for every 10,000 residents. Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem donated 14 dialysis machines, three anesthesia machines and other medical equipment. Chad had only one government dialysis center with eight machines. They also provided six-person tents, personal protection equipment for medical teams, and backpack sprayers to eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

Among the equipment Israeli Flying Aid has already provided to Chad are ventilators, wheelchairs, crutches, treadmills, nurses’ carts, bandages, exam tables, disposable birth kits, blood donation kits and blood storage bags. IFA also stocked the warehouse with $5,000 worth of nutritious ingredients to feed the orphans and staff members for six months.