Zimbabwe: No Home to Go to

11 November 2009

Harare — Tendai Javangwe (not his real name) is 16 years old but looks half his age; he was born HIV-positive and has been staying at a home run by Mashambanzou Care Trust, a community care and support organisation.

He had been living with his aunt since his parents died, but illness forced him to drop out of school and seek medical treatment at Mashambanzou - meaning "the dawn of a new day/life" in Shona - in Waterfalls, a residential area southwest of the capital, Harare.

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