It is with mixed feelings that I once again put pen to paper so to speak for this the final trip report for 2009. It has been a great year as far as helping the older folk go, yet looking back I tend to wonder, “did we do all we could do”? This was without a doubt the most traumatic year for most of our pensioners in that they and many others, lost everything they built their hopes on. Pensions and nest eggs were wiped away overnight as the Zimbabwe currency first crashed and then disappeared altogether. I have never experienced such positivism in the “glaring face” of hopelessness. More about that will be in the 2009 Overview, which will be out early in the New Year.