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 means [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Zimbabwe’
June 22, 2009
Zimbabwe: Infected by hope
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 we left [...]
June 20, 2009
Zimbabwe: Lot more than porridge in the pot
Two women stood over their cauldrons of steaming maize porridge, stirring it with a long knobby stick. We had arrived at the Dhirihori primary school in Marondera, some 114km outside of the capital city Harare.
The school’s faded white-washed buildings stood dilapidated and in urgent need of repair. The place looked deserted.
Then from nowhere, like a [...]
June 19, 2009
Opinion: Dambisa Moyo’s book ‘Dead Aid’ reviewed
There seems to be renewed wave of interest in Dambisa Moyo’s book, Dead Aid, and no wonder.
Her thesis is that a trillion dollars of aid to Africa has left the continent worse off than it was 50 years ago and fosters the corruption which, in the popular mind at least, blights the whole of Africa.
This [...]
December 21, 2008
Zimbabwe: Helping people survive
In response to the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe, CAFOD supports local groups providing access to clean water and medical treatment, as well as distributing food, seeds and fertiliser to struggling families
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