Zimbabwe

Shylet Kupara receives her first WFP food voucher and a bag of Super Cereal to assist her nutritional rehabilitation (Photo: WFP/Victoria Cavanagh)

Nutritional Supplements Sew Health And Hope In Zimbabwe

Shylet Kupara and her husband run a small tailoring business from their home in Harare. Since Shylet tested HIV positive three months ago, she has lost weight - and also the strength and energy to sew. "Every day I wish I could wake up and be able to work, to add something to my life, but the illness brings me down," she says.

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Food production in Zimbabwe has been devastated by a combination of economic and political instability and natural disasters. Recurrent droughts, a series of very poor harvests, high unemployment (estimated at more than 60%), a restructuring of the agricultural sector and a high HIV/AIDS prevalence rate – at 13.7 per cent, the fifth highest in the world - have all contributed to increasing levels of vulnerability and acute food insecurity since 2001. This situation has necessitated large-scale humanitarian food assistance operations in the country.
 
 
 
 
 
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Country at a glance 2012
Planned Beneficiaries1,500,000
Beneficiary needs (mt)105,423
Beneficiary needs ($US)111,251,257
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