Zimbabwe pensioners who lost everything due to hyperinflation, are the core of ZANE’s work.

ZANE supports elderly people in Zimbabwe who have been so badly impacted by the economic turmoil of the last 10 years. Many had sold houses, moved into smaller homes and invested the proceeds expecting to be financially secure for the rest of their days.

However when hyperinflation hit, they lost everything. Many lost their pensions and what they receive today is totally inadequate for their modest needs; many lost their medical aid, and many lost their children who left for greener pastures.

People contact us from time to time asking if they can help ZANE and often they come up with some pretty harebrained schemes so we decided to start a whole new section of ZANE Australia called “I am Totally InZANE”!!

The founder of ZANE, Tom Benyon, has for many years now been doing an annual fund raising walk in the UK and has thereby raised an amazing amount for the charity. This absolutely tops the list of inZANE schemes in every way – Tom is in his mid seventies and has three artificial joints and still manages to notch up the thousands of miles and thousands of pounds while engaging in a wonderful blog.

The latest inZANE challenge is Mike Passaportis’ attempt to complete the entire Appalachian Trail hike from Georgia to Maine - 2,190 miles or 3,524 kilometres in one go – the “thru-Hike” as it is known. He is just over half way and is well on course to finish by October when winter sets in and the Trail becomes impassable. You can follow Mike’s blog on http://zaneaustralia.org.au/

With best wishes,

Nicky Passaportis (CEO ZANE Australia)