The Blue Cross Challenge – Days 3 and 4
Today’s 89 kilometer track out of Chipinge and up into Chimanimani through the remote Rusitu valley was an absolute bastard with 2025 meters of climb.
The Blue Cross Challenge – Days 1 and 2
This blog is coming to you from the middle of nowhere in the Zimbabwe lowveld, just a few kilometers from the Mozambique border. I’ve just endured the first day of the Blue Cross, but only just.
Tackling The Blue Cross Endurance Challenge
The Blue Cross Endurance Challenge is Zimbabwe’s most iconic endurance challenge which takes participants from Zimbabwe lowest point to her highest, 500 kilometres on rough, tough backroads in 6 days, with 10,000 meters of elevation gain.
The Plight Of The Elderly In Zimbabwe
If you are reading of the plight of the elderly for the first time we beg you to consider donating to this very worthwhile cause – every donation, however small or large, is directed to where is it is most needed
A Little Love Goes A Long Way In Difficult Times
The latest reports from the ZANE carers in Zimbabwe highlight again how difficult the current situation is with intense heat and drought together with the escalating currency crisis as the Zimbabwe dollar yet again plunges in value against the US dollar which makes food and medicine more and more difficult to procure. There have been…
Highlighting Daily Difficulties Experienced by ZANE Carers
Here are some of the difficulties being faced daily by the ZANE carers as they reach out to the many elderly folk struggling to make ends meet as Zimbabwe continues it decline into chaos.
Thank You From ZANE CEO For Your Generosity
Thank you. For twenty years we have been highlighting Zimbabwe’s decline and despair and yet the situation remains as desperate as it ever has. The name Zimbabwe: A National Emergency is as relevant today as it was twenty years ago. The political and economic turmoil persists, and the innocent people of Zimbabwe continue to suffer….
ZANE And Old Legs Support Pensioners In Need
Dennis dreaded telling his wife Anna that he thought the problem was back. She had been through hell during his last medical crisis six months ago, rushing around borrowing money, begging for help, sitting in the kitchen every night with a calculator trying to work out which bills to pay first and how much she…
Currency Crisis Wreaks Havoc On Zimbabwe Pensioners
The latest reports from the ZANE carers in Zimbabwe highlight again how difficult the current situation is with intense heat and drought together with the escalating currency crisis as the Zimbabwe dollar yet again plunges in value against the US dollar which makes food and medicine more and more difficult to procure. The heat over…
Days Twenty Nine and Thirty Of The Old Legs Tour
The drive north was real good and I saw Mt Cook, and also a pod of Māui dolphin, which are smaller than the dolphins we see in South Africa, and more acrobatic, leaping right out of the water.