School dropout rate rising as drought boosts hunger in Zimbabwe
By Marko Phiri LUPANE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Thabiso Dube isn’t helping his mother at home, the scrawny 8-year-old is working alongside her, doing odd jobs in exchange for food. “We haven’t had enough (food) for a long time. Over the past five years, Zimbabwe’s two Matebeleland provinces and the country’s Midlands have been suffering from a disastrous mix of erratic rainfall, flash floods and long dry spells.
