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Restore Zim

Just a brief note this week. I have been writing up curriculum plans for school and with a new course starting across five school years that is not a small thing.

I am mindful, however, of the plight of people in Zimbabwe where nothing happens unless you have US dollars with which to make it happen; thinking food, accommodation, health bills that sort of thing. Just imagine your elderly relative has a leg with gangrene, there is no place in the hospital until you have paid for everything from the bed linen onwards. Just imagine, the queues at the border are to go and buy food using overseas relatives' dollars and then bring it back to feed all the families that are dependent on you. Just imagine, the supermarkets on the other side of the border; they only sell catering size packs. Nobody buys anything else. Read more »

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