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Page last updated at 07:24 GMT, Thursday, 11 June 2009 08:24 UK

Zimbabwe's children 'do their duty'

Patrick and his family

In Zimbabwe, a country with more than 1.5m orphans, children have to grow up quickly. In the third of his series of reports from Zimbabwe, correspondent Mike Thomson reports on the children who are forced to take on the responsibilities of parenthood while they are themselves not yet in their teens.

The BBC is not allowed to operate legally in Zimbabwe so some names and places have been changed to protect the people Mike has spoken to.

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