Blog#3: Starvation stalks Zimbabwe villagers after poor rains

My article takes place in a village in Zimbabwean, the villager’s name is Connie Garandemo, who considers it an unusual day when she and her family can scrape together a third meal.  This village grows runinga, on a small plot of land in the village.  Last year they had an erratic rain fall, so they can only fill three buckets.  Each person only eats two meals a day, once in the morning and then in the evening.  The district of Buhera is now facing acute food shortages.  Connie Garandemo and her husband are living with HIV and are on antiretroviral therapy, which is a powerful regimen of medication whose outcome is improved by decent nutrition.  Connie’s husband has no choice but to go away for weeks at a time to look for small jobs for food.  In the very toughest times, the family can only afford a single meal and the children have been forced to miss school.  This family has people coming to them asking for food and they try to help when they can but it’s very rare. The situation is very bad for this village because the wells are dry, so people cannot grow their own food when the rain goes. 
This article is very eye opening because situations like this are becoming worldwide.  Many families in this world are having trouble by eating and drinking and doing the least they can do to survive.  This story brought me back to reading the book by Doc Hendley, Wine to Water.  He actually came to UNCG this past Wednesday to speak about the world and the water crisis that is a worldwide problem.  Families all over the world are suffering for food and water and I think this is an ongoing problem that is very sad.  A lot of us in this world take for granted what we have and not realize what other people are going through to just survive.  This family in this article is struggling so much that their kids are losing the opportunity to go to school to better their education. 
http://www.rnw.nl/africa/bulletin/starvation-stalks-zimbabwe-villagers-after-poor-rains