When we talk about refugee crises, the images that often dominate our screens are those of makeshift shelters, dusty border crossings, and a sense of stagnant desperation.

But in eastern Chad—a region hosting hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees a different kind of story is quietly unfolding.

It is a story where the traditional lines between refugees and hosts are beginning to blur.

In a country that ranks among Africa's largest refugee-hosting nations on a per-capita basis, survival is evolving from a daily struggle into a powerful lesson in shared resilience.

CGTN's Peninah Karibe traveled to eastern Chad and brings us this exclusive, intimate look at a frontier where refugees and local communities are rebuilding their lives from the ground up.