The Parish Church of St John-at-Hampstead

Homes In Zimbabwe registered as a UK charity in 2004.
This year, we aim to feed 1600 frail, elderly in Harare, Bulawayo and other towns around Zimbabwe. Withouts Homes In Zimbabwe‘ support many would starve.

The Zimbabwean economy has collapsed. The former national currency has been replaced by US$ and the South African Rand. As a result local pensions and savings have no value. Now there is food in the shops but it is priced in US$, prohibitively expensive and out of reach for most old people. Families have been split apart and many forced to flee the country. Hundreds of elderly have been left behind; alone, destitute and without enough to eat.

Homes In Zimbabwe provides food to 28 residential homes. It runs a soup kitchen and supports SOAP (Save Our Aged People) in Harare and Bulawayo; a network of volunteers who deliver food parcels to elderly people struggling to survive in their own homes.

In addition Homes In Zimbabwe also supplies fuel for stand-by generators at a number of residential homes, a vital resource with frequent power cuts. Boreholes driven by generators are often the only source of water available. Homes in Zimbabwe also provides essential items such as bedding, clothing and toiletries to those elderly people with no other means of purchasing these basic items.

How Homes In Zimbabwe Works
Homes In Zimbabwe purchases non perishable tinned and dried food in South Africa and transports it to Zimbabwe. Drivers run the risk of up to ten days delay at the borders but all of them have the relevant government permits and no import duty is payable.

The food arrives either in Harare or Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s two main cities where it is securely stored. It is then distributed by teams of unpaid volunteers.

Homes In Zimbabwe also sources fresh meat, fruit, vegetables and eggs in Zimbabwe which are distributed to residential care homes every week and to elderly people in their own homes. Fresh eggs are vital – they are the most easily digestible high protein food for the frail elderly.

Homes in Zimbabwe is very grateful to Hampstead Parish Church for the very generous support, and on behalf of all the elderly people who benefit from your contribution, we thank you.