Advocacy · in English
Broadband, electricity, drinking water, health, roads and bridges, education, vocational training, and a note to the commune: what we ask of the State, regulators, operators and partners, and what we commit to in return.
Each brief sets out a sourced diagnosis, what the change would make possible, precise requests to named recipients, and the association’s own commitments. All are published in French and tracked publicly (sending date, replies, results); none has been sent yet: the covering letters await the executive committee’s signature. English summaries below.
Bédjondo has no broadband coverage, in a country where mobile data, especially in small bundles, is among the dearest in Africa. We ask for priority in the 200 new 3G/4G sites and universal service, published coverage maps, rural tariffs and an accessible Starlink retailer. We commit to co-fund a community digital space and to run a citizen speed-measurement campaign.
Only 6% of people in Chad have electricity (1–2% in rural areas). We ask that Bédjondo and its cantons be included in the PAAET and Mission 300, public facilities first, with subsidised solar kits. We commit to solar street lighting for the market with the diaspora, and to a needs survey.
A departmental capital whose water tower serves a single village and stops for lack of fuel. We ask for solar pumping, extension of the network to the whole town, an inventory of water points, water and latrines in every school and at the health centre, and management committees. We commit to the inventory and to emergency repairs.
In Chad, nearly one birth in a hundred costs the mother her life. We ask for a midwife and a nurse, a basic laboratory, a solar cold chain, an obstetric emergency kit, an ambulance and a referral protocol to Koumra, and a community health insurance scheme. We commit to solar equipment for the maternity ward and medical missions from the diaspora.
Bédjondo is served by the national road but has no proper streets or drains; women have been asking since 2023 for a bridge on the Bédjondo–Békamba road, and the Hoblo bridge has collapsed. We ask for a first urban road plan with drains, both bridges, cantonal tracks and local maintenance crews. We commit to a documented survey of roads and breaking points.
Nationally, 73 pupils per teacher and classes of 83; in Bédjondo, community teachers paid late and a secondary school without a laboratory. We ask for qualified teachers, solid classrooms with water and latrines, an equipped upper secondary school (lycée), continuity of the ProQEB programme, canteens and vocational training. We commit to a solar-powered exam room, mentoring and scholarships.
Bédjondo’s vocational training centre is listed in the national register but has never opened. We ask for it to open on nine trades that the area actually needs — carpentry, metalwork and welding, solar, borehole drilling, masonry, agro-processing, tailoring, mechanics and digital skills — with apprenticeships funded by FONAP and examinations held on site. We commit to surveying local demand and to mobilising trainers from the diaspora.
Six proposals for a commune that matches the size of its town: a public and enforceable development plan, transparent own revenues, partnership agreements, an open council, a first visible project (solar lighting of the market), and pro bono studies by diaspora professionals.
Public follow-up, support form, citizen speed measurements and the participatory needs map are on the French pages: Nos plaidoyers · Carte des besoins. Partners who wish to respond or to support a brief can write to us in English.
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