People living in the rural areas of Zimbabwe and Zambia face enormous difficulty. Because of severe food shortages starvation has become a serious problem. One of every five children born in this area will die before age five from malaria and nearly one third of the adults are HIV positive. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has described this region and its combination of chronic poverty, food shortages and HIV infection rates as "the world's worst humanitarian crisis."

Zimbabwe was once the largest agricultural producer in Southern Africa and referred to as the 'Breadbasket of Southern Africa.'

Economic and political turmoil has proved devastating to Zimbabwe. Today, Zimbabwe can no longer even feed itself. Today, starvation is a real problem and has cost many lives in Zimbabwe and Zambia.

Emergency food relief has been sustaining much of Zimbabwe and Zambia, but it has created a dependence on handouts and a hopelessness regarding the future.

What is greatly needed is a way for people to provide for themselves.

ROCK of Africa Mission is distributing Survival Kits containing enough seed to provide food for a family for a season; and two mosquito nets. A $30 Survival Kit will provide food and malaria protection for a family.