Aid Delivery to Chad

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Displaced women at Koloma in southeastern Chad gathering to receive food aid for their families. Nearly 8,000 displaced people wait for aid workers to begin handing out some 100 tons of flour, salt, sugar and cooking oil that has taken over a year to reach Koloma.
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Hawa Brahim waits for her name to be called during food distribution at Koloma. The cooking oil Hawa Brahim is about to receive in Koloma started life more than 15 months earlier when Food for Peace director of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Jeffrey Borns sat in his office in Washington, DC and signed Order #81707503 for a total of 925 tons of oil.
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The port in Douala, Cameroon. Eleven months into its journey from Chicago to Eastern Chad order #81707503 still has 2,235 km to reach its final destination of the displaced peoples camp of Koloma.
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Railway line from Douala to Ngaoundéré. Cameroon has a railway on which WFP moves food aid north toward Chad, but it is extremely slow and only goes 930 km, as far as the town of Ngaoundéré. Order # 81707503 took roughly a month to be cleared from the port and loaded on railway carriages to Ngaoundéré.
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A 25-tonne truck carrying food aid for displaced people in southeastern Chad has mechanical problems. In theory some 6,000 trucks could make the road trip but most of them were falling apart and the rest were hard to get hold of as WFP had to compete for them with various commercial enterprises and other aid agencies.
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Koloma, a site for diplaced people near Goz Beida. Fifteen months since Order # 81707503 was signed it arrives in Goz Beida, four kilometers from Koloma.