From The Times
December 3, 2007
Their father died of Aids, their mother left them. Now they huddle away from sexual predators amid violence and destitution.
The Mbare Flats in the slums of southern Harare are a complex of bleak, two-storey concrete blocks that make the unprepared visitor recoil in horror.
They are packed with the destitute and violent, rural labourers who have come to the capital in search of work, and those exploiting them — and with government informers.
The windows are smashed. The place stinks. It has open sewers and communal lavatories. Men hawk home-made alcohol.
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Zimbabwe was once one of the most advanced societies in sub-saharan Africa, and now experiences numerous social challenges and 1,035% annual inflation and 80% unemployment. Zimbabwe is just south of Zambia and is home to over 12 million people, who care for 1.4 million Orphans.
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