Meet Nomathemba – a sponsor child in Zimbabwe
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Key Challenges for children in Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwe has seen food shortages, poverty, high unemployment and political repression.
- Around 60% of the population do not have adequate sanitation facilities.
- Many children die of preventable or treatable diseases – 39,000 each year don’t live to see their fifth birthday.
- Child marriage is widely accepted – nearly one in three girls are married by 18.