ZANE Zimbabwe A National Emergency

ZANE Zimbabwe A National Emergency ZANE enables donors to help forgotten people in Zimbabwe.

Providing food, medicine and friendship for destitute pensioners alongside small-scale health and education projects in the townships.

The Banality of Evil We took four of our grandchildren to Auschwitz. As a condition of their coming, they had to be over...
16/09/2025

The Banality of Evil We took four of our grandchildren to Auschwitz. As a condition of their coming, they had to be over 18, have seen Schindler’s List, know at least a little of the history and genuinely want to understand what it was all about. I was prompted to do so by the late Ken Dodd. This may sound totally weird, for what’s a dead comic got to do with Auschwitz?...

The Banality of Evil We took four of our grandchildren to Auschwitz. As a condition of their coming, they had to be over 18, have seen Schindler’s List, know at least a little of the history and ge…

The last day. The wind is said to be at hurricane levels and we worry at getting blown away. We decided that walking nea...
15/09/2025

The last day. The wind is said to be at hurricane levels and we worry at getting blown away. We decided that walking near cliffs in such a wind and it would be dangerous to try and do so we called it a day. It’s been a great walk. In a couple of weeks' time, we travel to Zimbabwe to discuss the work and the budgets and to say a sad farewell to three of our loyal workers....

The last day. The wind is said to be at hurricane levels and we worry at getting blown away. We decided that walking near cliffs in such a wind  and it would be dangerous to try and do so we c…

Starting at Walmer I once sat next to the crime writer PD James at a dinner. She told me that DNA had destroyed her work...
14/09/2025

Starting at Walmer I once sat next to the crime writer PD James at a dinner. She told me that DNA had destroyed her work and the only safe way to kill anyone these days was to “accidentally” bump them off the White Cliffs. So I walked them today with special care. On the path we met Wendy and Pamplona, two attractive and lively ladies who are totally set on living life to the full....

Starting at Walmer I once sat next to the crime writer PD James at a dinner. She told me that DNA had destroyed her work and the only safe way to kill anyone these days was to “accidentally” bump t…

Sandwich start Deluged with torrential rain, the walk came to a sodden halt. We started again in the afternoon. Allow me...
13/09/2025

Sandwich start Deluged with torrential rain, the walk came to a sodden halt. We started again in the afternoon. Allow me to explain our “Pop up” classes programme, it’s a transformational work and it’s tragic we can’t expand it across Zimbabwe. Please close you eyes and just imagine what it must be like to be a single mother, living in a slum where misogyny and violence rule....

Sandwich start Deluged with torrential rain, the walk came to a sodden halt.  We started again in the afternoon. Allow me to explain our “Pop up” classes programme,  it’s a  transfor…

We faced mile of unkept grass with the texture of sodden green spaghetti as we staggered along the St Augustine way; it ...
12/09/2025

We faced mile of unkept grass with the texture of sodden green spaghetti as we staggered along the St Augustine way; it doesn’t look as if it has been in use since the dear saint walked to Canterbury in the seventh century. I kept sane- just - by thinking of ZANE’s Clubfoot work, which, although it is not quite the crown of ZANE’s work - that is our pensioner programme - it’s certainly our orb and sceptre....

We faced mile of unkept grass with the texture of sodden green spaghetti as we staggered along the St Augustine way; it doesn’t look as if it has been in use since the dear saint walked to Canterbu…

Boer War Memorial, Herne Bay Bright sunny day with two friends, Rob and Margaret, who came from Worcester to walk with u...
11/09/2025

Boer War Memorial, Herne Bay Bright sunny day with two friends, Rob and Margaret, who came from Worcester to walk with us. We discussed the numbers of our friends who are ill or dying. I asked Margaret if she knew the five regrets of the dying. I listed them three years ago in my commentary, but perhaps supporters might like to be reminded....

Boer War Memorial, Herne Bay Bright sunny day with two friends, Rob and Margaret, who came from Worcester to walk with us. We discussed the numbers of our friends who are ill or dying.I asked Marga…

I once sat on a committee of a London charity, “New Horizons” with Lord Longford and Jack Profumo. Over lunch, Longford...
10/09/2025

I once sat on a committee of a London charity, “New Horizons” with Lord Longford and Jack Profumo. Over lunch, Longford asked me for my motives. I stumbled a reply and said they were mixed. He said, “May I give you some advice? As he was paying for the lunch, I could hardly say “no”. “We all have mixed motives in everything we do,” he said, “may I suggest you just shut up get in with it.”...

I once sat on a committee of a London charity, “New Horizons” with Lord Longford and Jack Profumo. Over lunch, Longford asked me for my motives. I stumbled a reply and said they were mixed. He sai…

A lovely fresh breeze and a sunny day; we were accompanied by two delightful supporters from Maidstone, a retired journa...
09/09/2025

A lovely fresh breeze and a sunny day; we were accompanied by two delightful supporters from Maidstone, a retired journalist and his delightful wife. We had a far ranging conversation and they were both well read and as sharp as tacks. I was reminded of the aphorism, it’s hard to get an intelligent person to change their mind but impossible if they are stupid....

A lovely fresh breeze and a sunny day; we were accompanied by two delightful supporters from Maidstone, a retired journalist and his delightful wife. We had a far ranging conversation and they were…

Under Watered I felt below par at the outset of today’s walk. What could it be? Then I wondered if I was becoming dehydr...
08/09/2025

Under Watered I felt below par at the outset of today’s walk. What could it be? Then I wondered if I was becoming dehydrated. It’s easy to underestimate the amount of water needed in warm weather when walking long distances. I redoubled my water intake and feel better. Totting Up While Tottering Along I have totted up a rough calculation of the work ZANE has undertaken in Zimbabwe over the past twenty years....

Under Watered I felt below par at the outset of today’s walk. What could it be? Then I wondered if I was becoming dehydrated. It’s easy to underestimate the amount of water needed in warm weather w…

We are now half way through the walk. Jane and I are to visit Zimbabwe in a couple of weeks. In many ways, it will be a ...
07/09/2025

We are now half way through the walk. Jane and I are to visit Zimbabwe in a couple of weeks. In many ways, it will be a sad occasion as we will be saying farewell to three loyal and dedicated servants of ZANE who are retiring after 20 years of service. We never reveal the names of our workers, but those leaving have enabled many thousands of the elderly to face retirement with sufficient food, money, medicines and love instead of penury and despair....

We are now half way through the walk. Jane and I are to visit Zimbabwe in a couple of weeks. In many ways, it will be a sad occasion as we will be saying farewell to three loyal and dedicated serva…

Our guest walker is an eminent judge who spent part if his early youth in the British South African Police and based in ...
06/09/2025

Our guest walker is an eminent judge who spent part if his early youth in the British South African Police and based in Rhodesia.. We spent a happy time talking about the old days. I thought the walk would be too much for him, but we were plain wrong. At the day’s end, we walked through at least half a mile of rotting rubbish crowned by a sinking dead rat....

Our guest walker is an eminent judge who spent part if his early youth in the British South African Police and based in Rhodesia.. We spent a happy time talking about the old days. I thought the w…

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