Champtala is a refugee camp in

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, Nangarhar Province,

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. The camp holds (as of December 2008) over 1,250 refugees who have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan. Some of the refugees travel 30 km to the city of Jalalabad to work as laborers. The camp receives some water and facilities from

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and

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. Health assistance is provided by CWS,

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, and the Afghan Ministry of Public Health.

Sources

* ACT International
Drought & Food Insecurity
Geneva, 4 December 2008. {{coord missing, Afghanistan Refugee camps in Afghanistan Populated places in Nangarhar Province

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