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Submitted by Lucia Mvula (Lucia) about 9 months ago

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It is harvest time in Zimbabwe's northern Mashonaland Central Province, but the only thing growing on most of the farms around Bindura, the provincial capital, is tall grass.

"This area used to be the breadbasket of the region," said Zivei Kabungaidze, provincial coordinator of the Farm Orphan Support Trust (FOST), a local NGO that assists orphans and vulnerable children in farming communities. "Only about five out of 100 farms are still growing commercially."
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