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At the time of the reporting, Xavier Creach also explained, funding is a major problem, given the scale of the needs: " I think I can speak for all humanitarian actors when I say that the challenge is enormous, because we are in a financial situation where our priorities are constantly being revised downwards. We need US $ 630 million for the whole of Chad. Of this $ 630 million we have only received a quarter. So, we ' re doing a quarter of what we should be doing, and three-quarters of the population ' s needs are not being met.
As the UNHCR ' s Deputy Regional Director reminds us, the future is uncertain and there is still a long way to go to find lasting solutions that will enable these 928,000 refugees to restart their livesin dignified conditions
" In the camps, the population is extremely young. They come from the urban centres of Darfur. When they find themselves in plastic houses, they can ' t see their future very well, and they don ' t want to be there for 20 years. I think it ' s our job to offer these young people local options, because there are bad options. There are at least two: the first is recruitment by an armed group, and the second is that they feel obliged to risk their lives crossing the Sahara or the Mediterranean Sea to get into university. So we have a duty to offer these young people prospects and opportunities for the future’. MB
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