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Hi everyone, hope the sun is shining where you are, as it is here. Spoke to my Mum yesterday, it is becoming a daily struggle to find food in Zimbabwe. Can you imagine going into a supermarket where the shelves are literally bare? You can't even buy basic commodities like salt. The queues for bread stretch for blocks, patrolled by baton- wielding policemen in case there's riots when the daily quota runs outs. Restaurants and take- aways are barely able to open because they have nothing to cook. There is no meat, no milk, no sugar,no eggs and no maize porridge, which is the staple diet of the African people. You can't even buy cigarettes, in a country that's main export used to be tobacco. My Mum has lived in Zimbabwe all her life, a long time really, and she has never seen such desperate suffering. It's not only humans, as people cannot feed their pets properly either. Combine this with severe petrol shortages, power failures and lack of water and you have a grim situation. I guess if we still are going to go in October , we will be going with suitcases full of food.
To change the subject completely, I read that the world's only freshwater dolphin, the Yangtze River Dolphin, has now officially become extinct. Another one on the list.
These are interesting times, the world seems on a downward spiral, yet it it up to us as individuals to act responsibly and respect the earth and each other. It all goes back to the old saying, "The world will change when we change."