LEEDS, England (AlertNet) Â? As part of AlertNet's series profiling elderly people around the world, we visit 60-year-old Andie Khupe who has fled her home country Zimbabwe and now lives in the northern British city of Leeds.
Khupe does voluntary work at a Red Cross drop-in centre for destitute refugees and asylum-seekers and is also studying for a social care qualification.
She talks to AlertNet about her family, growing old and leaving MugabeÂ?s Zimbabwe.
Produced by Olesya Dmitracova and Natasha Elkington
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