“If government improves, our lives may….”
“Failed rains brought us problems and donors seem to have
disappeared….”
“The children go to school without eating and are turned away for failing
to pay levies. Life is so difficult and drought makes it impossible….”
“I have put my hope in my children, I do not see how I can
survive in the future otherwise….”
“I hope for better things if some family members find work….”
[Voices of villagers interviewed in Gwanda rural,
September 2011]
“As far as I am concerned, just go and buy your own seeds and
don’t wait for something to materialize from government because
it will come too late to be useful – if it comes at all….”
[ AREX official, 28 October 2011]
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