Families survive on one meal in drought-hit Zimbabwe

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In this file photo taken on September 2, 2019 Leon Kufakunesu gathers jackalberry fruit onto a plate which his mother has resorted to serving the family as a midday meal while saving up the little mea

lie meal left for dinner, at Buhera in Zimbabwe's Manicaland Province. - Zimbabwe is experiencing one of the worst droughts in history, blamed on the effects of the El Nino weather cycle.

But there are days when “my husband and I don’t eat at all” to make sure the children have some food, she said. A disturbing feature of this year’s food shortages is the increase in the number urban poor who are vulnerable. In August, the United Nations extended its appeal for aid — from $234 million in February to $331 million to feed the combined total of over seven million Zimbabweans, roughly half the country’s population.

The Kufakunesu family and neighbouring villagers have been lucky to have boreholes to draw water for drinking, washing and watering the garden — but the water is drying up due to the heat and scanty rain.

 

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