This is an email series highlighting the risks that refugees and internally displaced people are facing as a result of recent funding cuts

Dear John,

In the heart of Farchana Refugee Settlement in Chad, teachers continue to show up every day at the main high school, determined to continue educating their students, despite funding for the school having been cut.

“They are just waiting, they are just looking at us, expecting that we will find a way, we will find a way to continue to support. It is really difficult,” - Michelle-Rene Bizoza, Associate Education Officer for UNHCR based in Chad.

Since the start of the war in Sudan, more than 760,000 Sudanese refugees have fled to Chad.

They escaped war hoping to rebuild, but now even that hope is slipping away as severe cuts in funding have shut down critical programmes, forcing schools to close. These cuts, on top of years of underfunding, are devastating, and in Farchana, children displaced by war are now losing a core lifeline: their right to learn.

UNHCR is determined to continue to help. But we need your help. Your donation today can help UNHCR continue to show up as much as possible and keep the hope alive.

Hawa Ahmed, 18, is a student at the school and loves biology, says “Education is the key to life. Education makes you brave and helps you achieve your goals and dreams for the future”.

Please support in any way you can today.

Thank you,

Monia Hassan
International Supporter Care
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency