32 No attempt in this first phase of the research was made to estimate the loss of earnings for this group. However, the study did try to capture the loss of some of the various benefits that commercial farm workers enjoyed as a consequence of their employment. 35% reported having a school on the farm, whilst 61% reported providing a clinic or medical care on their farm, and 66% reported having an HIV/AIDS programme on the farm. The costs of these facilities are detailed below in Table 16. Table 16 Costs of amenities provided on farms. Total US$ [averageUS$] Annual cost of school 337,000[2,018] Annual cost of clinic 519,249[3,091] Annual cost of AIDs 90,160[534] awareness Extrapolating to the entire farming sector, this suggests that something in the order of US$24 million per annum may have been lost in services and support for the commercial farm worker population. 42 In current Zimbabwe dollar terms, this suggests a loss of about Z$40,229,592,000,000 at the inter-bank rate. 2000 2001 2002 Table 17 Ministry of Health & Child Welfare Z$[US$] 6,189,168,000[112,530,745] 10,933,711,000[198,794,745] 22,459,863,000[408,361,145] Ministry of Education & Culture Z$[US$] 146,101,165,000[265,639,364] 26,070,950,000[474,017,273] 50,395,134,000[916,275,164] If this is then compared to the national provision for education and health, it can be seen that the commercial farms were providing, at 2000 rates, the equivalent of about 21% of the Ministry of Health budget in 2000, and about 9% of the Ministry of Education’s budget in the same year. There were also a number of other amenities and facilities [see Table 18 below] available to the commercial farm worker population as a consequence of their employment on the farms, and these too were lost as a result of their displacement. 42 Here we are assuming that 4,324 farmers have lost their farms, and made the extrapolation as before in respect of gross damages. A Preliminary Report on Human Rights Violations on Commercial Farms, 2000 to 2005.