Adrian is an American citizen, but he was born in what was then Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe. And he still has very strong ties to his home country, a land so prosperous it was called the Breadbasket of Africa. They boasted a literacy rate higher than in many Western countries. In Part 1, we talked about President Robert Mugabe's "nationalizing" the white-owned farms 2000, bringing the country to its knees in only five years. This was recorded in mid-2012, when inflation was so out of control, the government was printing $100,000,000,000,000.00 bills – that's one hundred trillion dollars – the life expectancy was back up to about 50 (it first dropped to the mid-30s), and unemployment was at about 90%. In Part 2 of this podcast, he talks about his Zimkids project, that feeds, clothes, educates, and teaches skills to Zimbabwean orphans.
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