I want to raise £500 in the next few days to buy basic food for those living in Zimbabwe. Money raised will go towards those affected in the Chinhoyi area - including gogos (grannies) who have been unable to raise money through their street markets. The picture above shows 5 meagre slices of bread on sale for $11Zim.

Cathy Buckle, who lives in Zimbabwe, describes the situation well. 'On these cold winter morning when the temperatures are down into single digits and thick white mist conceals dips and valleys, Zimbabweans aren’t snuggled up warm in their beds but are out looking for water. Boreholes with hand pumps, wells with ropes or murky shallow  pools in what’s left of our urban wetlands have become the new gathering places these early mornings. Buckets, cans, containers, wheelbarrows and trolleys are the tools of the dawn brigade and these days whole families are involved, including countless school children who aren’t at school and don’t have any books or guidelines
from government, schools or teachers on what they should be doing in the  Covid lock down. The online learning revolution is just a strange term to hundreds of thousands of kids without computers or
internet access here while they struggle home with buckets of water and arms getting longer with every step.

Once the water is secured  it’s food that everyone’s looking for. In the last fortnight a box of 100 tea bags has gone from Z$59 to Z$159; a loaf of bread from Z$40 to Z$69 and supplies of sugar and maize meal have disappeared altogether. A litre of fuel has increased from Z$21 to Z$29 and the queues stretch
for kilometres as yet again the supply chain has been choked. '