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Extracts from Harare Report 31 May 08

HARARE REPORT

18 - 31 May 2008


What a strange place this is – there are 50 billion dollar notes in circulation but the most you can draw from a bank or carry with you is 5 billion… “agro cheques” how aptly named! However there is hardly anything to buy in the shops - Spar has a few supplies but prices have tripled since last week.

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Homes:

The homes are continuing to battle on – some have put through huge increases but these usually fall far short of inflation. New minimum wages have been set by the unions but have not been officially gazetted – I suppose nothing can be ratified at the moment ...!

[name of home deleted] have gone ahead with their plan of letting [house name deleted] to a group of doctors but without making much effort at all to accommodate the present residents – consequently we have had several rather distraught old folk running round to other homes looking for rooms – this is not at all how the idea was first presented when we were assured that all of the residents ... could be accommodated elsewhere in the complex.

Individuals:

Calls for help continue to pour in and we deal with them as we are able to get round to them.

FOOD:

We had a meeting with ****, **** and all the other people concerned with food for the elderly. We decided that we would re-instate the GBP300 per month to [organisation name deleted] Harare (the amount that we give to [same organisation name deleted] Byo) and in return, they would give us food parcels to distribute to our needy cases – quite often we interview a person for a [charity name deleted] payout and find that they are in dire need of food just to tide them over until [that] payout actually comes through. We also met a food and drug import agent and she has agreed to help individual old folk who do have access to money but can’t find the food to buy. **** will visit the warehouse and see what over-the-counter drugs the company are able to import as well as looking into the importation of prescription drugs.

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[report from partner charity - name deleted]

We received a letter from [associate in UK] saying that he will be sending us a new schedule on Wednesday next week. In the mean time he has asked us to follow up on some urgent cases the most important being Mr **** from Bulawayo


Until next week

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