A boy carries a tin of cooking oil from a food aid distribution centre in Chirumanzi, 250 km (155 miles) southeast of Harare, January 15, 2009.

 

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When Jenny Des-Fountain turned 50, she asked for food – lots of food. The birthday gifts she most desired were rice, tinned protein and cooking oil. It wasn’t that Jenny was hungry, but she...

 

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This article was originally published on page 6 of The Star on January 23, 2009

But a party was the last thing on Jenny Des-Fountain's mind as her half century approached. "It just didn't seem meaningful when Zimbabwe was going through what it was going through," the blonde life-coach says.

 

"So I just got hold of my friends and said: 'Come on guys, bring a bag of mealie-meal [maize porridge powder] along', and they did.

 

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•  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
 
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