When I spent a week visiting camps in Chad in September, one refugee elder, Yahya Adam Nadhif, asked me: Do Americans know what is happening to us? In this huge and unfolding crisis, there are certain groups who seem the most vulnerable and yet are overlooked by the systems meant to help them.
Both aid experts and the refugees themselves bemoan a lack of support due to funding shortfalls and difficulty in reaching those in need of food, shelter, health care and other assistance.
"Nobody's looking out, really, for people who fall through the cracks of assistance because there are too many new people coming in," says Sasha Chanoff, the executive director of RefugePoint, which has operations in Chad.
According to UNICEF, which tracks child refugees, there are 3,310 unaccompanied and separated refugee children in Chad.
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