ZANE - Zimbabwe a National Emergency

ZANE High Density Areas Medical Appeal

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 do not rent any offices and employ only a small staff in the UK. Please donate today by clicking here.

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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This page updated 5th November 2009

ZANE HIV/AIDS treatment

Zimbabwe has the third highest incidence of AIDS/HIV in the world as a proportion of the national population. Estimates suggest that up to a third of Zimbabweans may be affected. ZANE is working with sufferers to offer them antiretroviral treatment and to show them how to live while managing the disease. In addition ZANE staff are working in schools in ZImbabwe to educate children about HIV/AIDS to help to prevent it spreading further.

ZANE's HIV/AIDS clinic is now full to capacity and we now require more funds to expand the work.

ZANE fights Zimbabwe Cholera

ZANE medical staff were highly involved in the Zimbabwe cholera outbreak of 2008 and, thanks to the help of many UK donors, have been instrumental in implementing safe-water systems to minimise the the threat of further outbreaks.

Although cholera is not currently widespread in Zimbabwe, the rainy season has not yet happened and ZANE medical staff are preparing themselves for possible further outbreaks later in the year. WHAT WE DO IN THE HIGH DENSITY AREAS

ZANE is pioneering a model for the redevelopment and regeneration of communities who are currently in crisis. As a result, lives are being transformed as people are enabled to become self-sufficient. Activities include:

- Primary health care/HIV-specific medical clinics
- Home visits and home-based care training
- Support groups, Bible studies and Education
- Nutritional supplementation
- Training in food production/nutrition
- Income generating projects

Please donate to the ZANE High Density Areas Medical Appeal today by clicking here.

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 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, Clare Hayns, John Hayns, James Maberly,
Camilla Sinclair, Andrew Vaughan, Ann Warren

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ZANE - a Zimbabwe charity working to combat Zimbabwe cholera as well as working with pensioners in Zimbabwe.

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: the Zimbabwe cholera epidemic and other Zimbabwe health issues, and aiding Zimbabwe pensioners in retirement homes.

Firstly ZANE-Zimbabwe a National Emergency is working with Zimbabwe pensioners in the retirement homes. Many Zimbabwe pensioners served their country and the UK during World War 2 and are now in a desperate situation 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, these pensioners' pensions are now worthless and they now have nothing to live on. ZANE-Zimbabwe a National Emergency is a charity working with the Zimbabwe pensioners 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 to combat the Zimbabwe cholera epidemic and 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.