A year after Operation Murambatsvina ('Drive Out Filth'), the government's sudden campaign to purge informal settlements, the lives of thousands of affected Zimbabweans have not changed. Uprooted last year from homes built illegally in the capital, Harare, families with five or more members have been squeezed into tiny living spaces authorised by the government on the outskirts of the city, with no source of employment and, in some cases, no access to medical facilities.