ZANE NEWSZIMBABWE CRISIS APPEAL 2011/12

From: Sarah* Role: ZANE Senior Social Worker

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Registered charity number: 1112949 *Names in this newsletter have been changed for security purposes.

Malnourished with no knickers

Sarah* visited Alison Burridge* in Bulawayo

What can you do?There are hundreds of people like Alison in today’s Zimbabwe.

Prices are high. ZANE cannot afford to help them all.

Save an old lady’s dignity and make a gift to Alison today.

Alison Burridge is 84 and a retiredschoolteacher. She lives in a tiny flaton the outskirts of Bulawayo. Herhusband Stephen was killed in theSecond World War. She has nochildren. All her savings andpension were destroyed in the greatinflation. She was trying to live on apound a day. When I found her aweek ago, she was malnourishedand ill. I arranged some food andoffered to take her to the doctor.But she refused to go!

I couldn’t understand it. A few dayslater, I visited her again. She seemedto be morbidly depressed. I couldnot establish the real reason. Thenyesterday, on impulse, I gave her anadditional $20. It wastransformational! Over a cup of tea,Alison slowly told me the reason forher depression.She was so poor, she couldn’t affordknickers! Poor Alison was proudand she did not want the doctor tosee she couldn’t afford underwear.

Help us make

a difference

Growing old with

empty pockets

Local pensions for retired civilservants, now paid out in USdollars, have converted to less thana pound a day. Foreign pensions,previously exchanged on the blackmarket, now leave elderlyZimbabweans trying to survive onless than two pounds a day - notenough to pay for monthly homerentals, let alone utilities, food andmedical needs.

The work of ZANE1 ZANE does not supply money or food in bulk. Rather

ZANE is a “relational” charity, in that we gently means

test the 1,800 elderly people to whom we give aid. At

the same time, we give encouragement to often very

lonely people. That includes about 600 ex-servicemen

and their widows/wives. In this way, ZANE ensures

that only those in need of support receive it so we don’t

waste donor money.

2 ZANE has lost no donor money to corrupt officials

since its foundation in 2002. Support goes to where it

makes a vital difference.

3 ZANE employs 32 skilled and brave people in

Zimbabwe. ZANE is the only charity that offers help to

needy members across the community.

4 ZANE is the largest supplier of financial grants to the

pensioner community in Zimbabwe.

5 ZANE was the Daily Telegraph Group’s overseas

charity of the Year 2010/11.

6 ZANE is in effective partnership with all the UK

services’ charities in Zimbabwe. Since 2004 ZANE has

facilitated circa £1.6m in grants to WW2 veterans and

their widows (and others).

7 ZANE financially supports various Trusts which assist

the elderly destitute.

8 ZANE operates primary care clinics in the High

Density Areas around Harare, where there is extensive

disease and poverty and therefore limited access to

health care.

9 ZANE assists in the funding of an orphan prevention

programme, whereby it cares for widows, children and

orphans.

10 ZANE assists in a cholera prevention programme

funding boreholes to provide safe water. It assists with

a revolving credit system to enable people to become

self sufficient.

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Michael* reports:

“The borehole and pump arefunctioning well and continueto provide drinking water to theresidents of Mabvuku, a highdensity township which hadalmost no municipal water andwas an area hard hit by cholerain 2008/9”.

Safe Water

Business Working

Workshops

Training workshops for businessprojects were held in August inEaling and in Parkville outsideHarare.

Elizabeth writes:

“There is a desperate need forincome generating projects to beencouraged. The topics we coveredwere: business projects, profitmaking, and how to make worksustainable”.

Help us make

a difference

ZANE needsfurtherresources toenable it toexpand itswork ineducation.

Can you help us?

Costs have risen 600% and demand is up by 500%

Please fill in the donation form and make a difference.

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Ex Rhodesian African Rifles

Patrick Olangi

I met Patrick, who served in theRhodesian Rifles for five years until1958. His character was describedas “exemplary”.He told me that he has threeorphaned grandchildren.

These ex-servicemen and widows of ex-servicemen of the Rhodesian

African Rifles arrived at the office in a group. They all served with the

British forces in the Malayan campaign in the 1950s.

Hope for Heroes – Please act today

What can you do?

ZANE has to buy essential food and medicines to help these brave people and their wives andwidows who have nowhere else to go other than ZANE.

We can’t help without you so please send us a gift today.

By doing so, you can be part of ZANE’s commitment to making a difference and saving lives.

They are amazing! They had travelled up to 300 miles from all overZimbabwe and slept on the pavement in order to seek ZANE’s assistanceand yet they were all so smart. They fought for the Crown in theMalayan campaign. We know that the UK services’ charities have beenmost generous, but what can we do to top up the aid? In the last yearour costs have leaped over 600% in real terms whilst demand forZANE’s services has risen 500%.Their savings have been destroyed by hyper-inflation.

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From: Helen* Role: ZANE Senior Nurse

Jumpfor Joy

Helen writes:

“I visit the ZANE Jump for Joy training course arrangedand paid for by ZANE to teach hundreds of nurses anddoctors how to cure clubfoot by the process ofmanipulation or surgery”. ZANE needs more money toextend the programme in Zimbabwe to be able to correctclubfoot in both Harare and Bulawayo so that morechildren can be cured.

There are up to 14,000 cases of untreated clubfoot inZimbabwe.

What can you do?

ZANE needs your money to continueto help children Jump for Joy.

ZANE needs to be able to fund morevisits from surgeons in the UK to

teach nurses how to cure clubfoot inZimbabwe.

Clubfoot Programme

Education Outreach

Elizabeth reports:

“Many of the children in ourcommunities are illiterate. This isironic in a country that used to havethe highest educational literacyrates in Africa.

The schools have almost allcollapsed in the economic turmoilthat Zimbabwe has experienced inthe past decade”.We are providing essential literacyand numeracy skills.

ZANE staffer Jemima* has beenattached to a learning centre. Shehas a great gift for working withchildren and a great passion to doso.

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ZANE is an extraordinary

charity set up by inspiration . . .

I have been enormously

impressed by the vision, the

hard work and the unquenchable

spirit of everyone I have met.

The Rt. Revd John PritchardThe Bishop of Oxford

Zane is really in touch with the

people it assists . . . ZANE’s

work is wonderfully moving . . .

John HumphrysAuthor, journalist, radio & TV presenter

I have seen a little bit of ZANE’s

work on the ground and from

what I have seen it is very, very

impressive . . . ZANE is one of

those lovely organisations that

make a little bit of money go a

long, long way. ZANE is a good

cause and the money is

properly and well spent.

John Simpson cBE

World Editor of the BBC

ZANE does quite outstanding

work on behalf of vulnerable

communities in Zimbabwe . . .

The work ZANE does through

its committed and

inspirational team continues

to provide a valuable lifeline . .

. It has been a privilege to see the skill and

care with which the organisation directs its

precious resources towards those in greatest

need.

H.E. Mark canning cMg

Ambassador, British Embassy, Harare, Zimbabwe

“

I am overcome by

the ZANE workers’ dedication

and efficiency and humbled

by their bravery. Through

ZANE’s infrastructure and

hard work, hundreds of

veterans and widows are

seeing out their twilight years

with some dignity.

colonel Paul Davis cBE

Secretary General,The Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League

what others say . . .

Zimbabwe is still at a critical

stage. There are many vulnerable

people who are exposed. Were it

not for ZANE I do not know how

many people would have

survived. ZANE’s work is very

effective . . . I say to anyone who

can afford to give, please do so as

generously as you can.

Andrew Pocock cMg

former UK Ambassador to Zimbabwe, 2006-9

In Zimbabwe people are

forgotten . . . ZANE does

marvellous work with the

money it raises. It’s

important to support the

work and please do so.

Lord Mackay of clashfern KT

former Lord Chancellor

I am deeply impressed

with the work of ZANE;

one of those charities

that make a little money

go a long way

Baroness Royall of BlaisdonLeader of the Opposition in theHouse of Lords

ZANE has done a remarkable

job and it has a practical and

down to earth way of helping

people. They make a real

practical difference to people’s

lives. ZANE is a charity well

worth supporting.

Rt Hon the Lord Hurd of Westwell cH cBE Pc

ZANE, PO Box 451, Witney OX28 9FY United KingdomTel: 020 7788 7803

Email: info@zane.uk.com

or call our credit card hotline

020 7788 7803Please donate online at

www.zane.uk.com

ZANE is now the largest giver of aid of all the charities operating in Zimbabwe,

other than the international food agencies.

ZANE is the only charity operating in Zimbabwe that gives substantial aid

to both the white and the black communities.

ZANE supports communities with safe water projects, an education

programme, and encourages the formation of small business projects.

Dear Week Reader

Tom Benyon walked from Edinburgh to London - some 452 miles - from early

September until late October 2010.

In June 2011, Tom walked 350 miles from Land’s End to Westminster. Both walks

were to raise awareness of the plight of all those who find themselves imprisoned

in Zimbabwe.

Thank you for reading about ZANE’s work. To see more please visit www.zane.uk.com.

ZANE’s costs in Zimbabwe have risen 600% in the last eighteen months and at the same

time demand for ZANE’s services has risen 500%. So despite the fact that our donors,

particularly the services’ charities, have been most generous, we simply need more

money. We are already having to turn desperate people away.

Our work in the high density areas is essential and life saving. Alison and Patrick (see

pages one and three) came to the aid of the free world when we were in grave difficulty.

Now they are old and frail. Without ZANE’s help they face destitution, for we are their

only lifeline. Unless we can help them right now they will die for lack of food and

medicines.

In eight years, ZANE has lost no money to corrupt officials. Donor money goes to where

it makes a vital difference.

If you want to save a life, send a donation, or better still, make a monthly donation that

allows us to plan the future with confidence.

If you have some shares you would like to donate to ZANE, we would be pleased to

accept them with our grateful thanks.

Yours sincerely

Tom Benyon OBE

ZANE Director

PS Please read overleaf what various eminent people have said

about our work.

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Will you please reply today and give regularly

to help us keep on saving lives?

ZANE is an

organisation

well worthy of

support . . . The

need remains

very great . . . organisations like

ZANE fill a serious gap in social

provision.

Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Riind qc MP

former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

I am enormously

impressed by the

work ZANE does

for ex-servicemen and their families

in Zimbabwe. Well done ZANE!

I very much admire ZANE’s brave

volunteers.

general Sir Evelyn Webb-carter Kcvo oBE

Controller of the Army Benevolent Fund

ZANE is a

wonderful

charity. (ZANE)

is about service

and it’s about

love . . . what is

special is that ZANE forms

relationships with everyone it

helps.

Rt Hon the Lord Paul Boateng ofAkyem and Wembleyformer UK High Commissioner to South Africa

”. . . about ZANE