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Chad – Mia Farrow, March 2010

Mia Farrow, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, has been on a week long visit to Chad to highlight the start of a regional polio vaccination campaign that it being launched. Chad had 65 cases of polio diagnosed last year amongst children and there is fear that it could spread.

Chad is also suffering from severe climatic weather conditions with desertification and food insecurity affecting millions of people.

In both the East and West of the country acutely malnourished children are being brought to therapeutic feeding centres that are supported by UNICEF. Prolonged drought, internal displacement caused by civil war, refugees who have fled fighting in neighbouring Darfur, and salination of what few water resources remain are all contributing to the problem, and thousands of children remain at risk.

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  • A woman holds her young baby in a therapeutic feeding centre, supported by UNICEF. Kate Holt.
  • A woman holds her sleeping child in a Therapeutic Feeding Centre supported by UNICEF. Kate Holt.
  • An elderly woman listens to Mia Farrow talk about the polio eradication at a community meeting. Kate Holt.
  • A group of boys walk home in the sunnset in Goz Baeda, Eastern Chad. Kate Holt.
  • Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, administers polio drops to a young baby in Ndjamena. Kate Holt.
  • Clako Ali, four years old, who contracted polio last year, is helped to stand up in her braces. Kate Holt.
  • Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, holds a severely malnourished child. Kate Holt.
  • An aerial view taken of the camps for internally displaced people and refugees from Darfur. Kate Holt.
  • A woman stands with her child outside a community mobilisation meeting. Kate Holt.
  • A young girl sits under a mosquito net at a therapeutic feeding centre. Kate Holt.
  • A mother who is a refugee from Darfur tries to feed her malnourished child watched on by her daughter. Kate Holt.
  • A caravan of camels walks through the desert in the middle of a dust storm near Mao. Kate Holt.
  • A young mother holds her malnourished child at a therapeutic feeding centre that is run by UNICEF. Kate Holt.
  • Women stand with their children outside a community mobilisation meeting attended. Kate Holt.
  • Women arrive by donkey and with their children to a community mobilisation meeting. Kate Holt.
  • A woman breastfeeds her baby at a community mobilisation meeting. Kate Holt.
  • A woman carries water on her head in the evening light at a settlement for displaced people. Kate Holt.
  • A mother, who is a refugee from Darfur, cradles her young baby in her lap. Kate Holt.
  • A woman puts her hand on her malnourished child in a therapeutic feeding centre. Kate Holt.
  • A mother holds her holds a severely malnourished child at a therapeutic feeding centre. Kate Holt.