Zimbabwe
![89-year-old Mlanzi is blind and cares for five grandchildren - one of which, Janet, is pictured with her (names have been changed) [Fiona Callister/CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/zimbabwe/images/mlanzi-and-janet/257773-3-eng-GB/mlanzi-and-janet_1column50_nospace_landscape.jpg)
For over 30 years CAFOD has supported programmes in Zimbabwe, predominantly through the Catholic Church working in partnership with Diocesan Caritas branches, Justice and Peace Commissions and other bodies incorporated in the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference.
In 2010 we’re helping save lives through our Emergency Food Security Programme, which delivers food to the most disadvantaged people including school children, the elderly, the chronically sick and poor people in rural areas.
Our Zimbabwe partners give vital assistance to support groups for people living with HIV and AIDS through advocacy initiatives, skills and equipment to boost income, nutrition tips and healthy behaviour advice. They also offer support to children affected by HIV, ensuring their voices are heard at local and national levels, and ensuring access to essential education and healthcare services.
Our partners support communities to repair and construct water and sanitation facilities. They focus on building communities’ ability to manage their own resources in future. They also provide hygiene education in communities and schools.
We continue to improve people’s livelihoods, by providing seeds, tools and training to vulnerable families through our partner programmes, which will enable them to reduce their dependency on food handouts by producing their own food.
We’re also supporting partners in increasing communities’ participation in governance. This is vital for ensuring people understand the responsibilities their decision makers have in their society and how people can voice their needs and interests to those who represent them.
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![Helping those most at risk from devastating drought [Alessandra Magri/CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/about-us/what-we-do/emergencies/appeals/kenya-crisis/helping-those-most-at-risk-from-devastating-drought/1118438-1-eng-GB/helping-those-most-at-risk-from-devastating-drought_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg) |
We respond to emergencies all over the world, reacting immediately by working through local organisations before, during and after the initial disaster |
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Since independence, CAFOD has supported an active development programme, both through church-run programmes and non-church organisations |
![Nontobeko Nkomo and Mongameli, aged two, at Empandeni Primary School, Zimbabwe. The lack of food is reaching a critical level - many families are starving [Annie Bungeroth]](/var/storage/images/where_we_work/africa/zimbabwe/images/nontobeko_nkomo_and_mongameli_aged_two/191744-3-eng-GB/nontobeko_nkomo_and_mongameli_aged_two_0column75_nospace_landscape.jpg)
![A child waits in front of an improvised kitchen on the side of the road outside Mvurwi village, about 81 miles west of Harare - May 2008 [REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo, courtesy www.alertnet.org]](/var/storage/images/emergencies/zimbabwe-crisis/archbishop-2008-09-17/child-with-kitchen/902046-1-eng-GB/child-with-kitchen_0column75_nospace_landscape.jpg)
