Jane's Story

Jane served her country in the Wrens between 1939-45. When she was demobbed she went to then Rhodesia with her new husband, her "dashing" major in the Black Watch, George Temple. The Temples farmed outside Mutare. In 2002 the farm was repossessed, then George died of a heart attack. Her son Owen died soon afterwards of cancer.

Jane is now suffering from crippling Arthritis and she is now totally disabled. She is alone in the world and relies totally on ZANE for all her needs.

We needed the likes of Jane Temple to defeat Hitler. Now in extreme old age, Jane needs us.

* The story is true but Jane's name has been changed for security purposes.

• World’s fastest shrinking economy • World’s highest rate of inflation • According to the World Bank “The Zimbawean 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 employs only a small staff in the UK. There are no middlemen and there is no waste.

£175 supports a pensioner for one month
£1000 supports a pensioner for six months
£2000 supports a pensioner for one year

© 2008 ZANE - Zimbabwe a National Emergency
Registered Charity No: 1112949 ZANE: - Zimbabwe A National Emergency
Director: Tom Benyon OBE, Trustees: Jane Benyon, Sue Gibbs, John Hayns, James Maberly,
Camilla Sinclair, Andrew Vaughan, Ann Warren

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