Many of you will have been following the story of Mary* over the last few months and wondering how she is doing after being admitted to a local frail care hospital with two broken arms. We have such GOOD NEWS to tell – a wonderfully generous donor in Australia has come forward and offered to... Read More

When Meg* was rushed to hospital with crippling stomach pain last year a scan revealed a large tumor which was seeping through her stomach walls. The dreaded word peritonitis was a reality, her stomach wall had ruptured and the doctors said Meg’s chances were very small. Thanks to a niece in South Africa who had... Read More

We have previously written the stories of Mary* and David* followed by the sad death of David, and now there is more to tell about Mary. Our ZANE nurse reports: The Thursday before Christmas I had a call to say that Mary had fallen during a rather heated exchange with one of the other residents... Read More

Please consider giving ZANE a Google Review – It would mean so much to us. Click here to post your review. To fellow Zimbabweans, ex and current, and to all our ZANE donors and friends, it has been a momentous week for our beloved Zimbabwe culminating in the resignation of Robert Mugabe. It has been wonderful... Read More

The potholes around Harare are so bad now that visiting beneficiaries in the outlying areas is becoming more and more challenging and Donny* lives way out in the backstreets of Southerton. I used to be able to go out there in my little car but now I have to wait until one of the other... Read More

Introducing Occupational Therapy into the aged care homes is helping pensioners find purpose in their lives following the loss of their life partners and having to leave their home and friends and everything and everyone they know and settle into a new environment with strangers. Recently Jane* had to undertake a huge move for an... Read More

Peter* and Mary* have been favourites of ours for years. At the height of the farm invasions, this wonderful old couple was referred to us by neighbours after the family had been given 24 hours to pack up and leave the farm they had lived and worked on for decades. It was a traumatic experience... Read More

In June we posted a story about Mary*, who had been a hairdresser, and David*, a former motor mechanic, and how the two of them had ended up living in the small tented campsite on the outskirts of the city, totally dependent on ZANE for literally all their needs. Mary and David were friends and a... Read More

Jane* and Greg* left the retirement home where they were renting a small cottage five years ago. They left because they couldn’t afford to stay there anymore. It was one of many moves they had been forced to make as Zimbabwe’s economy collapsed and repeated currency devaluations left their private pension and life savings completely... Read More

Sometimes we are asked how long ZANE will be needed in Zimbabwe because surely the original emergency that saw the start of ZANE in 2002 is over – surely people have now ‘made a plan’ and sorted themselves out. Here is the story of professional person – a lawyer – whose plight has recently come... Read More

Seven years ago Paul* and Leslie* sold all their worldly possessions and sent the money to Paul’s daughter, Lynne*, (from his first marriage) in Tanzania. The economy was very unstable in Zimbabwe at the time, companies were closing, banks were going into liquidation and fearful that they would lose everything, Paul and Leslie thought it... Read More

When I saw Barry* recently I could tell that something was wrong; he had dark rings under his eyes, his face was gaunt, cheeks sunken and every now and again I heard him groan in pain. When I asked him discretely if he was OK, Barry at first looked away but when I persisted he... Read More