The crisis in Zimbabwe has escalated to an unimaginable point. We MUST do something to help the victims of this humanitarian travesty.

• : UNICEF is reporting that almost 1 in 4 children are now AIDS orphans.
• : The inflation rate is estimated at around 1200 percent.
• : Unemployment is over 80 percent, forcing citizens to desperate measures such as illegal mining.
• : Controversial land reform and forced eviction programs have left thousands of people homeless, displaced, or dead.
• : Food shortages are a growing problem.
• : Medicine is in short supply, hospitals are in crisis, and now doctors have been on strike for the past two months. Average life expectancy has dropped to a meager 36 years.
• : Laws restricting humanitarian organizations are keeping much-needed assistance from the people.
• : President Robert Mugabe was named the world’s 4th worst dictator by Parade Magazine. Political corruption and governmental abuses are rampant.
• : Economist ranked Zimbabwe as dead last internationally in quality of life.