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Tamaka, seven years-old, in her home village in the Mutasa Communal Lands, approximately 130 miles east of the Zimbabwean capital Harare. She and her family live in modest housing without electricity or running water and live mostly on millimeal, a local porridge like cornmeal. Mutasa Communal Lands, Zimbabwe, 2007
Once considered a breadbasket for southern Africa, Zimbabwe has in recent years been plagued by rampant poverty, authoritarianism and over 80 percent unemployment. Recently, there have been shortages of food including some of the most basic such as bread, flour and cooking oil. There are also large shortages of fuel for cars and other products.
