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One of the important things to remember about ZANE is that all the beneficiaries are known personally by at least one of the team of carers who are on the ground in Zim. We received the following report from one of those amazing volunteers and would like to share it with our readers so that…

Challenges are good. They force you out of your comfort zone. But sometimes challenges are not so good, especially if you are a pensioner in Zimbabwe. For Zimbabwe’s pensioners, life’s challenges are steep like mountains. Please be introduced to Peter Shaw. His mountain is steep like Everest, and he has to climb it quickly, but…

The latest reports from Zimbabwe show yet again how difficult life is for those elderly folk who have lost everything. The ZANE carers go about their work with love and kindness, bringing light and dignity into lives that have been blighted through the horrors of bad governance. However, it is the ZANE donors who quietly…

The following report from one of the ZANE carers shows again the kind of loving intervention that ZANE can make with the old folk of Zimbabwe who have lost so much. Sometimes it is simply spending time and giving practical assistance rather than spending money on helping, and because every single beneficiary is known by…

Apologies for the long no speak. It’s been 7 weeks since our Zanzibar Tour and I’ve been off the bike a lot, getting over eye operation number 9. For the sake of those who can’t leave Zimbabwe, like our beleaguered pensioners, we have to carry on peddling hope in Zimbabwe, not despair. And that job…

When ZANE carers were asked to visit Sandy and Ian in their little flat, they were sad to find an elderly couple in deep distress. Sandy has been diagnosed with breast cancer, and Ian, needing a walker to get around after breaking his hip last year and not having access to proper rehabilitation, has not…

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’s decline into chaos. It has been a very busy month with Zane Aid deliveries and assessments. Generally, the focus seemed to revolve around the…

With the situation in Zim continuing to decline as hyperinflation hits yet again, Tom Benyon aged 80 (ZANE’s founder) and Jane, his wife, will be undertaking yet another walk to raise money for the elderly folk who depend on ZANE for their very survival.

Without regular visits from the dedicated ZANE carers, many of these pensioners would literally have no way of surviving. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your ongoing support and encourage you to continue.

We camped our 3rd but last night of the Zanzibar Tour in a town called Kibiti, in the grounds of a high school cut and pasted straight out of 1960’s East Germany. The buildings had a certain romance, but only in pitch darkness, other wise they were crumbling.