By Ian Chivers, Managing Director of Country Management, Merrill Lynch

It was with mixed emotions that I arrived at Harare Airport at 9pm on a damp evening. Almost 25 years ago my wife and I had spent two exciting and highly personally rewarding years working in the newly independent Zimbabwe. Kate had worked for an educational publisher and I for a government organisation – providing loans to commercial and communal farmers. It was very much a time of great hope and promise for the future. (more…)

Camfed’s work in Zimbabwe is more vital now than ever before. As the economic situation continues to deteriorate, we are seeing more and more girls and boys dropping out of school. Families are finding it increasingly difficult to support their children’s education as they struggle to put food on the table. (more…)