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The Zimbabwe Agricultural Welfare Trust is an established UK Charity formed in 2001 to provide relief and aid to the beleagured agricultural community in Zimbabwe. We have spent several months devising and impimenting a plan of action, which has culminated in Project Survival. Working closely with other local groups in Zimbabwe like the Farm Families trust, with whom we collaborate, we have identified key areas of need, and are attempting to service those needs. Primarily, support is needed for the victims of the ongoing land seizures, and we are actively supporting now a large number of these people on an ongoing basis. We are managing in some cases to keep the communites together in-situ in the short term, but increasingly it is becoming neccessary to relocate a community to a safe-haven of sorts, where they will be sheltered and protected, again in the short term. By its very nature and the nature of the ever changing situation on the ground, 'Project Survival' is a reactionary project put in place to serve in the interim while we formulate and develop more specific and targeted projects. It involves the support of Farmers and Farm Workers in terms of financial contribution to their daily livelyhood, contribution to schools for the continuing education of Farm-Children and the provision of key health workers in the most vulnerable sections of the community. We are a charitable organisaion, and as such are completely dependant on the charity and the support of the wider community to enable us to do our work and impliment meaningfull and workable projects and initiatives which will bring long term relief and benefit to the Agricultural Sector in Zimbabwe. Without your continued and ongoing support, we are unable to operate. All too often around the world we are seeing the effects of situations which were left for too long, never adequately addressed, and as such have been allowed to degenerate to a stage from which there is either no return, or to one where entire generations lose out. We are determined that this will not be the case in Zimbabwe. Many people are working tirelessly, looking for solutions to the crisis, and we ask that you support this work in any way you can. Thankyou Lao
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