moved in by May. Twenty-three people are living in this one incomplete, three-roomed house. The house has concrete brick walls but no floor and no roof. There are no windowpanes and no electricity, water, or sanitation. The house shell is owned by a Victoria Falls resident who has an alternative shelter. He charges them rent to occupy small spaces within the shell. In May the rent was $ 300(000) per family. Each family has built a remarkable shack of corrugated iron and plastic sheets inside the house. Living conditions are squalid and there is insufficient food for the children. The families all have to scavenge for water and find bathing a problem, as with twenty-three people in one small space, there is no privacy for washing. The children are all out of school, and nobody is employed except for one woman working as a domestic worker. One man interviewed in this house indicated that after the displacements, he went to the rural district of Lupane, but he has returned from Lupane because living conditions in the rural area were impossible. He was supposed to stay with an uncle who himself was living in a tiny wooden cabin. He had to sleep outside. So, grim though the situation is in this shell-house in Victoria Falls, it is better than his rural option. In May when he was re-interviewed, he had sent for his wife and newly born child from Lupane and they had now built their own shack inside the house shell and were living there. Three of these six families had been initially displaced into rural areas by the demolitions, and had then come back to town because it was impossible to survive in their rural homes. People survive at the most basic level by finding casual jobs, and it is easier to find such work in Victoria Falls than in rural areas. Victoria Falls displaced interviewed in Lupane Ten families were interviewed in Lupane in January. They had been displaced by OM from Victoria Falls to Lupane, a rural area about two hundred kilometres away. A follow up visit was made by the authors in May. We established that five of these ten families were no longer there, but had returned to Victoria Falls. In some cases, parents had left dependants in Lupane but had themselves gone to find work in Victoria Falls. It was explained to the authors that people had moved back to the town because life was not bearable in the rural areas. On the May visit, six families were interviewed whom we had not met in January, but who had also relocated to Lupane after OM: they referred anecdotally to many other families that they knew, who had returned to Victoria Falls within the last few months after failing to make a living in rural Lupane. The churches in Victoria Falls do not still have an active programme for OM victims. They have no access to food schemes or any other assistance. Not a single interviewee reported having received any assistance whatsoever since the time of the demolitions. In fact some interviewees were aggressive and said they did not want to be interviewed by people who then went away and offered no help. Situation ten Two year old boy: disabled after feet burnt during “Murambatsvina” Victoria Falls Incident on 2 June Interviewed repeatedly during 2006, up to June 65