World day of AIDS

 

Hello everyone, 

Since today is 1st of december, we needed to talk about an especific issue: HIV. Today is the world day of AIDS. We talked about this topic in our Zimbabwe project. Here we attach a link to the Medicos sin Fronteras article "Zimbabue: la dura lucha de las mujeres con VIH en zonas rurales". 

WARNING! DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE!

In many poor countries sexual protection is not a developed topic. In Zimbabwe, 1.4 millions of people are HIV positive. According to the article "Zimbabue: la dura lucha de las mujeres con VIH en zonas rurales" by Doctors without a fronteer, most women are afraid to ask their partner to use condom: "I am afraid of my husband. He knows that I am HIV positive but he lives in denial. And he has threatened to kill me if I bring condoms home". In Zimbabwe, when a woman is suspicious that her husband might have HIV, if she goes to get tested and she is positive, her family will acuse her of bringing the disease to the family and they'll get her marked with hot metal.

Places to visit

 Hi guys!!

We've prepared some places to visit in Zimbabwe for you to have dime fin!

- VICTORIA WATERFALLS

There is a huge variety of plants in this place during the whole year. This place is si noisy that you are able yo here the water from 40km distancie.

-HWANGE NATIONAL PARK

During the warm seasons it's really desertic but when the wet seasons come there is a lot of green and animals so it turns into a paradise.

-BOTANIC GARDENS OF HARARE

There are more than 500,000 diferent types of plants and 900 diferents varieties of trees and bushes. It looks like Hogwart's botanic class.

-ZIMBABWE RUINS

They date to de 11th century and it's one of the most importants arqueological discoveries of this beautiful country.

There are no photos in order to encourage you tu Google them and see how beautiful this places are.

New update + Kahoot

 Hi everyone! We've been all working in the Zimbabwe project this afternoon and we are almost finishing!!We are working fast but smart. In the begining of the class we organized ourselves because we are submitting this project in three weeks time. Today we focused on proofeeding the document, making it nice, clear and correcting grammar mistakes. We have also updated with more new information about the country, like news, economic situation, traditions, etc.  We're looking forward to show it to you someday, hopefully soon!

By the way, we have a Kahoot for you to learn more about Zimbabwe! Give it a chance and play now! We assure that it is a fun way to learn more facts on Zimbabwe! 

https://create.kahoot.it/share/zimbabwe-kahoot/c884099f-a7c2-49d2-b347-da51b7751f84

The link to the Kahoot will also be in our Instagram profile.

Make sure to leave us comments so we can improve our blog and ig entries, and remember to leave a like in our posts.

Thank you!

Zimbabwe Team 

Fun Zimbabwe Curiosities!

 Good afternoon!

Today we will be giving you some curiosities about Zimbabwe. Some of them are mindblowing!

o Did you know that although Zimbabwe is now one of the poorest places in Earth was once a very rich country? Incredible, right?

o Sadly, Zimbabwe has one of the lowest life expectancies in the world. Females are expected to live 58.7 years and males survive for 57.3 years, on average. (2016)

o Zimbabwe is suffering from a shortage of health care professionals.

o In Zimbabwe, there there is a strong belief that mermaids exist. In fact, these mythical creatures are often blamed for unfortunate events such as kidnapping, torture, and murder. Do you believe in mermaids?

o As most men in the world try to shade their large tummies for flat ones, the opposite is true in Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans see pot bellies in men as a sign of success and wealth. 

Hope you enjoyed all those interesting facts! Make sure to comment any suggestions for our blog entries and give like in our Instagram and blog posts! ;)

Zimbabwe Team

Did you know?

 Did you know that 396 people die every day in Zimbabwe?

We want this number to decrease and our project will enable us to make it possible. 

Make sure to comment any suggestions for our blog entries and give like in our Instagram and blog posts!

Zimbabwe Team

New Here? We are...

Hi everyone!

We're a group of students from a school in Spain named La Salle Tarragona.

We are Abril Baglietto, Noa González, Lídia Massagués, Ivet Ramos and Ivet Torres.

If you are curious about what we’ve been learning about Zimbabwe this is the best blog!

Here we will be updating our research project about poverty in Zimbabwe to concern people.

Make sure to comment any suggestions for our blog entries and give like in our Instagram and blog posts!

Zimbabwe Team