Rehousing the homeless...

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Jan Englund, who criticized the US for not sending HIM enough money to help Tsunami victims (at a time the US and Australia and India were the first ones there to help... didn't matter, the money needed to be sent to him to do surveys on who needed the money most, not to helicopter food, water and medicine to those starving and sick and dying)...
Well, dear old Jan is visiting Zim to decide how to rehouse those left homeless from Mugabe's Tsunami...


HARARE – United Nations (UN) envoy Jan Egeland began on Monday his tour of Zimbabwe to assess the needs of thousands of people who were displaced by a controversial government clean-up exercise last May.
Egeland, who was accompanied by several government officials, visited the poor suburb of Hatcliffe Extension, where residents are living in plastic shacks five months after President Robert Mugabe sanctioned the demolition of their homes.
At least 700 000 people were rendered homeless after the government razed to the ground thousands of homes and backyard cottages in a programme Mugabe defended as necessary to restore the beauty of cities and towns but condemned by human rights groups as a violation of the rights of the poor.

Ah, that's why he destroyed Sister Patricia's HIV clinic....and a convent chapel in Kwe Kwe...they weren't pretty enough....

The UN envoy was later shown several houses in Hatcliffe Extension built by the government under its reconstruction programme. But the Zimbabwe government, grappling its worst ever economic crisis, has failed to meet its housing targets for thousands of people displaced by the clean-up campaign.
Thousands? Try tens of thousands...

Sources said the UN envoy, who met Zimbabwe Local Government and Housing Minister Ignatius Chombo on Sunday “had an open and frank discussion (with Chombo) on how the UN, non-governmental organisations and other humanitarian partners in Zimbabwe can better support the many people in need of humanitarian assistance”.
How much do you want us to bribe you? (at least here in the Philippines, after taking the bribes, they let you help poor people, and will even cheerfully assist you...in Zim, they keep the outside charities --oops the PC word is NGO-- from helping at all so that news of how bad things are won't get out)...

In an official statement, the UN envoy emphasised “the critical role of the government in facilitating the work of humanitarian agencies by asking minister Chombo to 'help us to help you'”. ....

Egeland is expected to meet Mugabe today before visiting the second biggest city of Bulawayo later in the day. - ZimOnline