When I founded ZANE, I thought it would be a five-year mission at most. However, the sad reality is that the name ZANE: Zimbabwe A National Emergency is just as relevant today as it was then.
Imagine living in a country without Medicare or any form of social services provision. This is the harsh reality in Zimbabwe, where the aged and ill face a daily battle for survival. High inflation, mass unemployment, power cuts, water shortages and famine form the backdrop to everyday life, and the impact on the frail and vulnerable is catastrophic. The latest crisis facing our team is an increase in residential care home fees – the result of skyrocketing food, water and electricity bills.
The situation for the pensioners ZANE supports in these care homes is grave. We either fund the additional cost or they face homelessness. To ensure the future of beneficiaries in Bulawayo alone, ZANE must find a further $50,000 pa.
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Life for those living independently is just as difficult. Every week, our team is alerted to yet another person living in squalor or unable to afford life-saving medication. Without help, these individuals become weak and malnourished. After more than twenty years, it is still shocking that former farmers, teachers and engineers are enduring retirements marked by destitution and silent suffering; victims of Zimbabwe’s disastrous economic and political failures.
Without ZANE, the situation would be so much worse. It is thanks to the grace, empathy and generosity of our supporters that we are able to help these people.
Your donations ensure ZANE can relieve their suffering, and your kindness sends a message of love, strength and hope. You are saving lives.
If you have recently made a donation, thank you – and please feel free to ignore this appeal. If you haven’t, and are in a position to donate, please do so. It will help us maintain aid to those we support, and it could help secure the future of ZANE beneficiaries living in Zimbabwe’s struggling care homes.
Yours sincerely
Tom Benyon OBE
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Thank you – Nicky Passaportis ZANE Australia
Please donate to support pensioners struggling to survive in Zimbabwe
Any assistance is greatly appreciated and goes a long way to giving our pensioners a better quality of life and lift the pressure of money worries which is very debilitating emotionally.
(Donations made to ZANE in Australia, are tax-deductible)