ZANE - Zimbabwe a National Emergency

Because we are a small organisation, ZANE is one of the most efficient ways to give your money to help alleviate suffering in Zimbabwe. None of your money is wasted. We employ no full-time staff in the UK and do not rent any offices. Please donate today by clicking here.

UN Zimbabwe Cholera Figures 31st December 2008

The UN has revealed that two-thirds of the victims of Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak died in December.

ZANE medical staff are in the front line in the fight against cholera in Zimbabwe.

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Zimbabwe Child Malnutrition up by over 60%

Severe Child Malnutrition in Zimbabwe is more than two thirds higher than it was in 2007>

ZANE are providing food, training, education and support so that children and communities in Zimbabwe can eat now and in the future.

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Email Awareness Campaign
Please join this campaign to help us to spread the word about ZANE and raise awareness about the situation in Zimbabwe. It is very easy, requires very little effort on your part, and could have an amazing effect. All you need to to do is to forward an email to your contacts.

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ZANE is a colour blind charity; to the best of our knowledge, ZANE is the only charity in Zimbabwe that ofers help to both the black and white communities in Zimbabwe. We have been doing this for the last six years, and in recent times the needs have escalated massively.

There are some 6000, mainly British born, old aged pensioners in Zimbabwe.
Their position is desperate and grows worse daily. Some are in receipt of devalued pensions from the Zimbabwe government; but as the rate of inflation is around 1.7 trillion percent and rises monthly, the elderly have no way of keeping pace... The care homes face a terrible financial dilemma of unlimited need, yet they have no money or resources to match.

ZANE is also working in the communities in the high-density areas surounding Harare.
ZANE projects include cholera treatment and primary health care/HIV-specific medical clinics; home visits and home-based care training; support groups and education; nutritional supplementation; training in food production/nutrition and the seeding and support of income generating projects.

For in-depth background information and news about ZANE and Zimbabwe, please click here.


Download our 2008 Annual Report - please click here (please note - large pdf file, 7MB)

• World’s fastest shrinking economy • World’s highest rate of inflation • According to the World Bank “The Zimbabwean economic meltdown is the worst outside a war zone” • It ranks last in the Fraser Institute’s Annual Economic Freedom of the World report • The World Food Programme has named Zimbabwe as one of the Global Hunger Hotspots • It is estimated that only 10% of the winter wheat crop has been planted due to shortage of fuel and fertilizer • 70% of commercial agriculture has been destroyed • 45% of the population are malnourished • Population was 12 million in 2000 now in 2007 thought to be 8 million. Up to 4,000 leave each day • 85% unemployment • 25% of all Zimbabweans are in political or economic exile, the biggest proportional mass movement of a population in modern history • 25% of the population are living with AIDS, but with the exodus of people it might be as high as 40% • 20,000 documented murders in Matabeleland in the 1980s • Life expectancy for women is 34 and for men 37 • Zimbabwe has the highest number of orphans per capita • AIDS related deaths produce 350 orphans each day • 4 out of 5 hospitals in rural areas have no doctor
Please will you help us? Any contribution, however modest,
will make a difference.
ZANE has a first class team on the ground across Zimbabwe. ZANE has systems in place that ensure that every pound donated, is used to its maximum advantage. The money will be prudently used and will go towards the relief of hardship and acute misery.
The cost of care. . .
ZANE has no offices and it does not emply any full-time staff in the UK. There are no middlemen and there is no waste.

£50 supports a pensioner for one month
£300 supports a pensioner for six months
£600 supports a pensioner for one year
© 2008 ZANE - Zimbabwe a National Emergency
Registered Charity No: 1112949 ZANE: - Zimbabwe A National Emergency
Trustees: Tom Benyon, Jane Benyon, Sue Gibbs, Clare Hayns, James Maberly, James Pringle, Rev David Streater, Camilla Sinclair

original website concept by artlines - ongoing web design and maintenance by WebDes

ZANE-Zimbabwe a National Emergency is one of a number of charities working in Zimbabwe. the Zimbabwe situation at present is dire and worsening daily. ZANE-Zimbabwe a National Emergency is working in very difficult conditions to help in two main areas of the Zimbabwe situation.

Firstly ZANE-Zimbabwe a National Emergency is working with Zimbabwe pensioners in the retirement homes. Many of these people served their country and the UK during World War 2 and are now in a desperate situaton because of what has happened to the currency in Zimbabwe. Many of them had saved diligently all their lives to build up a pension so that they could support themselves in their retirement. Unfortunately, because of what has happened with the Zimbabwe currency, their pensions are now worthless and they now have nothing to live on. ZANE-Zimbabwe a National Emergency is a charity working with the Zimbabwe retirement homes to provide the food and medicines that these Zimbabwean pensioners need.

Secondly, ZANE-Zimbabwe a National Emergency is working in the high-density areas around Harare and Bulawayo with Zimbabweans who are struggling to rebuild their communities. ZANE-Zimbabwe a National Emergency is involved in projects to enable people to build sustainable lives in the current Zimbabwe situation through small-scale agricultural projects, small scale manufactring projects, support groups and health educaton. ZANE-Zimbabwe a National Emergency staff are also working to help alleviate the sufering caused by AIDS and the recent Zimbabwe cholera outbreak.

Please support ZANE-Zimbabwe a National Emergency by reading through our website, making a donation and/ or fundraising. ZANE-Zimbabwe a National Emergency - inproving the Zimbabwe situation and working to bring hope.