ActionAid International Southern Africa Partnership Programme (SAPP-Zimbabwe) Box 5: judging the severity of food insecurity to this may be due to the destruction of livelihoods and the preoccupation that members of communities find themselves in meeting survival strategies. Again households hosting orphans and female headed households according to the survey results were more likely to cite this as one aspect affected by the operation. This therefore suggests that there is a greater likelihood of future school enrolment as a result of the Operation in households hosting orphans and female headed households. Other factors apart from pupil dislocation also include teacher dislocation, failure of children to sit for exams in June, disruption of children friends, problems accessing schools because of persistent fuel shortages coupled with increased transport cost. 3.4.4 Property During the Operation Table 8: Proportion of households affected by Murambatsvina, property was lost as security of Operation Murambatsvina household property was Area Property (%) Health (%) compromised, breakage Harare 46 21 of property as a direct Bulawayo 47 34 result of the demolitions, Mutare 70 56 property seized by the Kariba 47 31 police and council police. Beitbridge 31 7 Furthermore, some Victoria Falls 39 10 artisans sold products at Overall 48 26 give away prices in order to minimize losses as a result of the Operation. Forty eight percent (48%) of homesteads visited reported that they had incurred losses of property. Apart from Mutare that recorded a high of 70% of the sample that had lost property, other surveyed areas recorded almost similar results (Table 8). Generally, households assets are used as a source of revenue in extreme cases, now with the loss of property, this can only mean that household security and safety needs had been reduced. Nonetheless no apparent difference was noted for the type of household and the vulnerability category in this respect. 3.4.5 Health The well being of the community is one important indicator of social wellbeing. And as such the survey explored how individuals had coped health wise, after Operation Murambatsvina. It is noted that slightly over 26% of people interviewed, attributed the deterioration of health of their loved ones as a direct result of the Operation. Moreover, considering the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe, it would be safe to assume that individuals who were receiving comprehensive treatment (ARTs) and quality support (food, HBC, counselling) had lost these services as a result of the Operation. These two aspects are further interrogated in following sections. Fifty four percent (54%) of households hosting chronically ill persons claimed that chronically ill individual health had further deteriorated as a result of the Operation. 3.4.6 Food security Understanding the severity of food insecurity is essential for determining the best type of response. In livelihoods approach the best type of approach, the severity of food Zimbabwe Operation Murambatsvina/Restore Order National Survey Report 21