Sharjah24 – AFP : It's a meagre sum -- just $9 per month -- but for many families in poverty-stricken Zimbabwe, it is their last shred of hope.
The innovative scheme by the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), UKAID and Denmark's DanChurchAid (DCA) is helping thousands of urban households that each day face a struggle to survive.
The combination of an economic meltdown and extreme drought has seriously worsened the plight of Zimbabweans, who were already struggling.
Nearly half of Zimbabwe's 15 million people live in a state of chronic food insecurity -- some 2.2 million in urban areas and five million in the countryside, according to UN figures.
In a visit last month, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, warned that Zimbabwe was on the "brink of man-made starvation".
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