Zimbabwe
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Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps
Our strategy
Support resilience to shocks and transition to recovery for vulnerable communities.
The context
Zimbabwe struggles with severe unemployment, diminishing access to health and education services and a steady decline in purchasing power. Once the breadbasket of southern Africa, it is now food-insecure and lacks the critical infrastructure and support mechanisms needed to help its most vulnerable citizens.
Our work
- Agriculture & Food: Reducing dependence on food aid by providing training, lowering barriers to credit, and subsidizing seed and fertilizer
- Children & Youth: Facilitating support to children with disabilities
- Innovations: Using mobile technology to provide farmers with crop data and banking services
- Water: Improving drinking-water quality and increasing household access to safe water and sanitation
All stories about Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe: Helping children live with HIV through Good Hope November 2, 2010
Taking care of children living with HIV, or those who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS, can wear a guardian down. Clinic visits never seem to end. There is never enough food to fill everyone’s bellies. And money on hand never seems to cover all the transportation and medical costs.
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Zimbabwe: Changing the lives of HIV/AIDS-orphaned children October 18, 2010
Across Zimbabwe, 1.5 million children have been affected by HIV/AIDS, with many losing one or both parents to the virus. The majority of these orphaned and vulnerable children — even if taken in by compassionate relatives — struggle to have enough food to eat and to afford school fees.
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Zimbabwe: Finding reason for optimism in Zimbabwe October 5, 2010
I am just back from a few days visiting Mercy Corps programs in Zimbabwe and it was fascinating.
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Zimbabwe: My introduction September 13, 2010
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Zimbabwe: A land where fifty thousand dollars used to buy you nothing November 2, 2009
Last week, Mercy Corps' Boston office (actually located in Cambridge) was fortunate to host our Zimbabwe Country Director, Rob Maroni. Rob had recently gone to Mercy Corps' Senior Leadership Meeting in Portland, Oregon, and stopped in Boston on his way back to Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe: A chance for the people of Zimbabwe October 2, 2009
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Zimbabwe: Shipping books to Zimbabwe schools September 15, 2009
It's hard to learn in Africa's schools without a basic textbook. A recent UNICEF study in Zimbabwe reported there can be as few as one textbook for as many as 40 students in schools there — if there are any textbooks at all.
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Zimbabwe: Big smiles abound August 15, 2009
Water is the key to a good life in Zimbabwe. I am in southeastern Zim, near Mozambique. It is a dry area prone to drought, especially in the past 25 years — climate change perhaps? Farmers barely subsist, earning less than $2/day. Eight months ago this area was ravaged by cholera.
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe, a land of paradox August 12, 2009
I'm in Zimbabwe, a land of paradox. Among the world's lowest life expectancies of 37 years. That's right - 37!
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Zimbabwe: Responding to Zimbabwe's Cholera Epidemic December 10, 2008