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Drought Drives Some Apostolic Faith Members to Seek Medical Help for Children
Sister Silindiwe
Shamhu had never seen anything like it in her decade at Murambinda Mission
Hospital – a woman in Apostolic faith headdress on the hospital grounds with a
child. LATEST NEWS
UNICEF and the Government of Zimbabwe screens
children for malnutrition One and half year old Lumunhu Muchimba gives a loud cry as the Village Health Worker weighs him on the scale. The Village Health Worker quickly notes down the weight before handing the child over to his mother and examines his feet for swelling as a result of excess water retention. The swelling of feet is VideosUNICEF BLOGZimbabwe’s Poorest Feel El Nino Pain as Drought Withers Harvests, Kills Livestock (decimates herds)
For four months Ripisai
Manonge and her four orphan grandchildren and great grandchild have survived on
half a dollar a day. Now she can’t go on, she says. STUNTING |