Mined and Forgotten Border Communities
The Chinozas live on the heavily mined Zimbabwean border. Their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence farming and cattle are a critical source of draught power, manure and milk but they had to sell their three cows to help pay for Raimon鈥檚 treatment and prosthetic limb. Stripped of this vital asset and with Raimon no longer able to work the land, they had to stop farming. His mother helped on their neighbours鈥� land in exchange for food, while his father moved away to work as an agricultural laborer for $60 a month. They could no longer afford to send their younger children to school.
The family鈥檚 luck changed in 2014 when The HALO Trust arrived in the area to conduct a landmine survey and subsequently recruited Raimon鈥檚 father as a deminer. Now that he is on a living wage his debt has been repaid and Raimon鈥檚 siblings are back at school.
The Chinoza鈥檚 story is by no means unique; the families of other Zimbabwean landmine victims frequently suffer the same sudden, downward spiral. That鈥檚 why HALO is so committed to training local people as deminers.
There are many more minefields to clear in Zimbabwe and elsewhere. Please help HALO to clear more 澳门六合彩官方网址 so that other families don鈥檛 have to suffer like Raimon鈥檚.
