week 3: zimbabwe colletta zimbabwe zimbabwe is a country in africa. there is a lot of poverty there,...
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Week 3: Zimbabwe
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Colletta ZimbabweZimbabwe is a country in Africa.
There is a lot of poverty there, mostly because of drought and fighting about land.
Colletta lives in Chirumanzu, Zimbabwe. Caritas Gweru helps people in her area.
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Zimbabwe is more than 10,000km from Australia
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This is Collettas family. She cares for her mother, two sons and her late sisters two daughters.
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Collettas family lives here. [One room is for cooking and eating. The other room is for sleeping]?
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Colletta keeps chickens in the yard. The washing up is left on a rack in the yard to dry.
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Caritas Gweru gives hygiene training and hygienic toilets. The old toilets were very basic. Colletta says her family is healthier now.
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For Collettas village, the garden is a place to grow community, as well as growing healthy vegetables. Extra vegetables are sold.
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The villagers learn how to grow vegetables well. They also learn how to use herbs as medicine.
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Caritas Gweru repairs water sources damaged in the fighting. The whole of Collettas village helped to repair their borehole. Colletta is part of the team that keeps it working.
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Caritas Gweru also helps people to find reliable ways to earn an income. For example, helping families to breed and milk goats.
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Others have learned to make peanut butter using this processor.
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Caritas Gweru also trains volunteers to care for people in their own homes who are suffering from illnesses, like AIDS.
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Colletta says, Caritas has taught us that these projects belong to us... (this) ensures theyll continue long after Caritas is gone.
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Picture credits
Themba Madzvimbo
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