Zimbabwe aid
The Auckland doctor, Jeffrey Hanna, aged 30, who has been sponsored by the . New Zealand branch of Save the Children Fund to work with refugees in Zimbabwe. Dr Hanna, an Auckland Medical School graduate of 1974, will specialise in caring for mothers and children in the countryside outside Salisbury. The Save the Children Fund is the first aid organisation to give help to Zimbabwe since the recent General Eelction there. It plans to establish mobile
clinics with two medical teams which will serve refugees returning to Zimbabwe. There are an estimated 500,000 refugees, most of them aged under 18.
Before returning to New Zealand recently, Dr Hanna spent the last four years in Australia’s Northern Territory, the Solomon Islands, and Sarawak working with underprivileged mothers and children. •. The New Zealand Save the Children Fund will spend $40,000 on the Zimbabwe project.
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