RTE
While Covid-19 has caused widespread lockdowns, economic downturn and strained our health system, we are relatively fortunate in Ireland and Europe.
Irish woman Sarah McCann has seen firsthand what happens when the virus hits a country already reeling from an existing pandemic. That of hunger.
Sarah, who is on the ground for Irish development agency Trócaire in Zimbabwe, says the situation there is at crisis point.
Today, one in three people are at risk of going hungry due to drought, made worse by the Covid-19 outbreak.
This is her first-hand account of the situation facing thousands in Zimbabwe.
COVID means I can no longer provide for my grandchildren
Updated / Tuesday, 19 Jan 2021
10:58
While Covid-19 has caused widespread lockdowns, economic downturn and strained our health system, we are relatively fortunate in Ireland and Europe.
Irish woman Sarah McCann has seen firsthand what happens when the virus hits a country already reeling from an existing pandemic. That of hunger.
Sarah, who is on the ground for Irish development agency Trócaire in Zimbabwe, says the situation there is at crisis point.
Today, one in three people are at risk of going hungry due to drought, made worse by the Covid-19 outbreak.