Anyone else watch "Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children" last night?

[Bramshott]

BBC4 - Harrowing documentary about children growing up in Zimbabwe today and the huge challenges they face just to stay alive, let along get an education.

I've donated this morning via their site here but feeling a bit impotent and distressed really.

I saw it too and every time I think about it I start to cry (not usual for me). I've never seen anything so distressing and harrowing in my life. This is a slow genocide and something has to be done. I also set up a monthly donation, but feel I have to do more. It makes me feel so guilty that I have so much when a child can't even scrape together 50 cents to pay for a term school fees. And little Esther goes to sleep on a towel on the floor and is left during the day with a baby and no water. I won't even start on Mugabe.

If anyone hasn't seen it, details on how to view can be seen on this website zimbabweschildren.org/

I started watching this on iplayer earlier, horribly sad.

Thanks for the link - I'll donate too, it's ll we can do I guess.

Yes I saw it, it was absolutlely heartbreaking. The stories of these children are just devastating, they is just no way out for them.

I have been thinking about it all morning and that their lives could not be anymore different than ours, its just so unfair.

The children so wanted to go to school, its a disgrace that this isn't able to happen. I went to wake my DD up this morning and looked around her big, gorgeous bedroom and saw all the toys and lovely things that she has and it made me feel guilty.

We sponsor a little boy called Winston in South America so he is able to go to school and after watching last night will definitely be looking to sponsor a child in Zimbabwe if possible. Thanks for the links.

My DDs are fairly similar in age to Esther and her little sister Tino, and the comparison was just mind-blowing .

Thank you for the link, I've been thinking about this all day. The little baby Tino is so like my dd2, it's breaking my heart. I will be donating, I guess it is all we can do. I would love to be able to just go and give them a hug and make it better. Those poor little girls.
I too was looking at my dd's bedrooms this morning and thinking about how fortunate they are, god, earlier this week I felt like a bad mother because I can't afford gym and ballet classes in Sep and dd1 will have to choose. Honestly, what was I thinking?!

This flim is repeated again tonight 10.45pm BBC 4 for those who missed it!!!

I read the credits at the end, and they mentioned that Esther and Tino had been taken into care by a children's home - I really want to know how they're doing. Obert is at a boarding school as are Grace and her sister....Grace's father died - I so want to know how they're all doing. Mugabe is a sick, evil man...

I watched it - those poor kids - both Esther and Obert had such sad eyes and the, heartbreaking thing, was they wanted nothing more than to go to school and learn.

The bones they were collecting - were they human bones?