Hungry in Zimbabwe: If you rest, you starve

[katty]

more:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27806974/

Aaron Ufumeli / EPA file


updated 2 hours, 25 minutes ago

MHANGURA, Zimbabwe - Katy Phiri, who is in her 70s, picks up single corn kernels spilled from trucks that ferry the harvest to market. She says she hasn't eaten for three days.

Rebecca Chipika, a child of 9, prods a stick into a termite mound to draw out insects. She sweeps them into a bag for her family's evening meal.

These scenes from a food catastrophe are unfolding in Doma, a district of rural Zimbabwe where journalists rarely venture. It's a stronghold of President Robert Mugabe's party and his enforcers and informants are everywhere.

[angstlessk]

1. OMFG! I will not complain again because my husband bought the hot sausage

rather than the mild. I have no money. I cannot help. It makes me sick.

[IndyOp]

2. Organizations we can donate to...

Mercy Corps has an ongoing program in Zimbabwe - 4-star rating from "Charity Navigator"
Home page: http://www.mercycorps.org/
Zimbabwe page:
http://www.mercycorps.org/?sections_id=3&subsections_id=31§ions_url=countries&subsections_url=zimbabwe

UK's Tearfund - Years of bad governance, and now drought and poor harvests, have left Zimbabwe in crisis – 4 million people face the threat of starvation.
https://www.tearfund.org/Giving/Give+Now/Zimbabwe.htm

Any others that people can recommend?