Presents for Mukuni

How many of you find it a struggle to know what to buy someone for Christmas, especially someone who appears to have everything? So how about giving something that will benefit someone who has nothing!

The children of Mukuni don’t receive Christmas presents, they don’t know about Father Christmas or the celebrations of the festive season. Apart from the joy of going to church on Christmas morning the rest of the day will just be as any other day at Mukuni Village. No stocking fillers nor treats just a plate of nsima (ground maize), vegetables and groundnuts and for the few lucky ones the addition of chicken or kapenta (dried fish) swilled down with water. Coke, Fanta and Lemonade are a luxury very few can afford and despite the constant heat ice-cream is unheard of.

Alternative Christmas presents could really help a child or community in need and give more satisfaction to the donor than the risk of purchasing an unwanted gift. From as little as £6 for a goat to building a house for a family your money will help to improve the life of someone less fortunate.

Presents for Mukuni: Donate a donkey

Presents for Mukuni: Donate a donkey

The following can all be purchased through the charity as an alternative Christmas present to provide valuable funds to overcome these hardships:Life in these remote villages is tough – with daily challenges to meet these people strive to find food for their families, fresh water to drink and medicine to heal their sick. All things that we in the west take for granted. For the past seven months the rural clinics have received no government funding. Yesterday I was told that there is an outbreak  in the district and no money available to buy the neccessary insecticides. The Butterfly Tree will help to eradicate this issue, at least for Mukuni Village, in the forthcoming week. These are just some of the many problems these gentle people have to endure while we suffer from the pressures of our Christmas – what to eat and drink, what to wear and finding the perfect tree!

Donate a goat – £6

Donate a football – £8

Donate 5 mosquito nets £20

Donate a bicycle – £75

Sponsor an orphan – £120 per annum

Build a house for widows and orphans – £400

Buy a 2010 charity calendar – £4 plus postage

For more information email jane@thebutterflytree.org.uk or telephone 01926 843699

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