ZACRO has always been committed to donate to women prisoners and their children. In the picture, these female prisoners holding their babies at Chikurubi female prison received cloths, toys food staffs among other goodies during festival days of 2008 from ZACRO. Humanitarian Assistance - Critical Evaluation. After the target group faced a severe humanitarian crisis during the period under review. The situation – characterized with economic problems encompassing hyperinflation and poor budgetary allocations to the Zimbabwe Prison Service – saw the ZACRO secretariat staff strategizing and programming again in June this year in bid to meet humanitarian needs of prisoners, ex-offenders and their dependents. During this period of humanitarian crisis the humanitarian intervention had to be re-engineered mainly focusing Thus the humanitarian program focused on on rendering love, kindness , provision providing economic and social welfare needs of of basic needs and the target group while complimenting efforts facilitating all that made up the towards rendering humanitarian assistance after welfare of the prisoners or exnoting that during 2008 government was not inmate and be set to restore human doing justice in fulfilling the humanitarian dignity. While the needs of prisoners. humanitarian program offered to cover most basic needs such as food, bedding material, clothing and provision of medical drugs and equipment most vital the organization had to employ strategies for the humanitarian assistance to impact positively. These included need identification first then followed by quantifying methods to determine the volume or level of the assistance to be rendered. Networking, creating strategic linkages and partnerships with other organizations was therefore of paramount importance during the period under review and this was in bid to source and channel the humanitarian needs to the target group during year 2008. However ZACRO had consider resource mobilization, considerate distribution logistics while monitoring and evaluation of the humanitarian assistance program was of paramount importance at very stage of the program after the humanitarian crisis was severe in the country’s prisons. The prisons struggled to get funds and resources to undertake pauper burials. Hence during this period under review - ZACRO provided resources mainly in form of transport to families 33