This video documentary explores life in Zimbabwe for children. The facts speak for themselves. Zimbabwe has the highest proportion of AIDS orphans than any other country on the planet (overall one in five children in Zimbabwe is an orphan) together with the highest child mortality rate, unemployment is around 80% and 75% of the population live in extreme poverty with many not eating from day to day.

The educational system is summed up by events in 2008 when the entire academic year was cancelled after O level pass rates dropped from a 72% to just 11% overall, with some schools recording zero passes. After teachers went on strike, six were allegedly murdered and thousands more assaulted by Zanu PF supporters claiming the teachers were in league with the then opposition Movement for Democratic Change party.

With thousands of children abandoning school, becoming orphaned or simply unable to be cared for by poverty stricken parents, many find their way to cities like Harare where they, together with hundreds of other children, live on the streets. As one commentator noted "children are now not only living on the streets, they are giving birth on the streets." This video explores life in Zimbabwe today and how it has become a humanitarian disaster for many living there.