Thank you, honourable member.
As noted in the background, there has been radio silence from neighbouring countries, such as Zambia, South Africa and Botswana, on the situation in Zimbabwe regarding all failures, including health care systems, food and water security and the economic crisis.
There has been aid provided by the United Nations World Food Programme. Currently they do support 20 regions and they're able to reach approximately 550,000 Zimbabweans, but compared to the 2.2 million we discussed earlier who are food and water insecure, it's a very small percentage of the population. We believe that condemning the current state of affairs, especially when it comes to the basic necessities of food and water, would allow the international community to recognize the severity of especially the food crisis in Zimbabwe. As the UN WFP has mentioned, we're approaching 3.3 million who will be on the brink of starvation, which is a very significant amount of the population itself.
We feel that highlighting and condemning what is going on in Zimbabwe would allow for at least a responsibility, in part, by the government, if anything else, to know that the international community does care about Zimbabwe and the state of its citizens.