There is a lot to say about Zimbabwe. After many years of decline – the collapse, really, of both the economy and the health care sector – I’ve been happy to see some level or normality return to the country. When I was last here in 2007, the shelves of the stores were literally empty, [...]
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October 23, 2009
Zimbabwe: Mothers abandon children in economic crisis
If you want to understand the scale of the economic crisis gripping Zimbabwe, travel to the village of Mandabe. While evidence of the hardships facing the people of Zimbabwe is not hard to find across much of the country, the face of crisis is not what you will find in Mandabe, but rather what you [...]
October 23, 2009
Zimbabwe: Food still scarce in poor families
After a drive down from Harare, we headed out for the village of Lupaka. We spent the day there visiting first the Lupaka primary school then the Lupaka clinic, which sit side-by-side and both of which Caritas Internationalis is supporting with food as part of the ongoing emergency appeal. The school has 535 students, each [...]
June 22, 2009
Zimbabwe: Infected by hope
A lot of our travelling has been on untarmaced rough roads, as our partners are working with really rural communities, those who can’t be reached by others. This is a lot to do with the church structure here, there is a parish and Deanery structure here, as there is in England and Wales - and this [...]
June 21, 2009
Zimbabwe: One box of gloves, miles away
Today we drove 100km to Nyanga, where the diocesan team took us to the district hospital to meet the doctor there. This is the main hospital for about 100km, and is where all serious cases would be referred, yet there is only one medical doctor in the whole place. He was with a patient, so [...]
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