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The day of a funeral, 2 days after Sharon Lawrence died her good friend remembers their brief time together.Sharon Lawrence died on the 5th March 2010 in the waiting room of a hospital in Zimbabwe's capital city Harare, dying of a HIV/AIDs related illness. She had just turned 40, was already a widow and left behind 5 children the youngest of which are now cared for by Sharon's mother.

Already having lived a life facing poverty, disease and violence the Grandmother is left to pick up the family and carry on. Supported by friends and family and the church. She will struggle to feed, cloth and educate them and the state will do little to help.

Martha wants to be a doctor when she grows up, she says its because 'they help people like me - I want to do that when I am older'. She is 14 years old, HIV positive, getting treatment and going to school in Mbare.A colection of portraits of HIV positive people from all over the city. Some, in a system that appears sporadic at best, get the medication and treatment they need whilst others struggle to pay doctor and hospital fees and suffer.

The sector of social welfare programmes it appears is delivered not so much by the government but by aid agencies and individuals in the communities.

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Milton talks about his country and the need for a school like his.Milton Vhura is a man with a mission, quiet and well mannered he is not an imposing figure but the school he has built says otherwise. Built with his own money - raised from teaching night school and in the day selling fruit from a cart in the centre of town. Milton runs a school that offers the chance of education to those to poor or marginalised to afford the state education.

A few days spent with the homeless young adults who live on the streets of the capital. Jealous (pictured), Hamza and Chris showed me the places they exist in and the things they do to keep safe and happy. As well as looking out for my back and getting me out a couple of close calls with the drug dealers and young men they live, and share the city, with each and every day.

Moffat Secondary School was one of the better schools I visited in Harare. It had class rooms full of pupils and equipment to teach with, as well as still having teachers to teach the children.

Morgan High School is in Braeside near to Arcadia, where Moffat School is located, but it is a world away in the state of repair and ability to teach.

The Project is run by the Central Baptist Church in the centre of Harare. Previously run by an international NGO who had to leave the country due to the political problems the church now teaches and trains up to 40 young girls, giving them a trade and a route out of poverty.

This programme is run by the CBC and provides a monthly distribution of food aid to some of Harare's most vunerable. The old, inferm and with young families.

Mr Scott was long gone, driven off some years ago by the War Veterens. The people we met had more recently been moved from the urban slums and given a peice of land to farm - having never farmed before in their lives.