| Description | Contains reports, correspondence, and papers concerning Save the Children's programme in Zimbabwe, including a farm health workers scheme, water and sanitation projects, work with Mozambican refugees, and support for the Jairos Jiri Association. Includes papers concerning the political situation in the country through the 1970s and early 1980s. |
| Administrative History | Allocations: 1965, 1967, 1978-1992; Programme spending in 1993/94, 1994/95
Southern Rhodesia
Rhodesia, commonly known from 1970 onwards as the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979. It comprised the region now known as Zimbabwe. The country, with its capital in Salisbury, was considered a de facto successor state to the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia (which had achieved responsible government in 1923) [Wikipedia]
SCF UK Farm Worker Programme started in 1981, involving collaboration and cooperation between farm owners, farm workers, NGOs and governmental departments; a variety of interventions in infant care, preschool education, housing, water and sanitation, nutritional gardens.
1970s (as of 1979) provided a grant to the Jairos Jiri Association for the maintenance of children's homes, supply technical equipment for assessing the degree of malnutrition amongst children in the country, supply of measles vaccine. Also small grants to other organisations. |