In Zambia there are 710,000 AIDS orphans and 33,000 children infected with the HIV virus, our orphan sponsorship program provides them with an education.

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Our Work

The Butterfly Tree has over thirty projects currently running in the Kasungula District of Southern Province, Zambia. Our first projects were to offer an orphan sponsorship program and to improve the health facilities in Mukuni Village. Due to the success of our fundraising we have been able to extend this support to various sectors of the rural community and include valuable water projects, seven bore holes have been added to schools and all the water tanks replaced in Mukuni. Some fifty community houses have been build for widows and the elderly.

Some twenty villages in the Mukuni Chiefdom are benefitting from our support; we are providing medical supplies to three rural health centres in the district. At Mukuni Health Centre our under fives’ feeding program replaces breast milk in mothers who are HIV postive. The Butterfly Tree maternity clinic offers a safe enviroment for mothers and babies. We fund HIV/AIDS workshops, voluntary testing and an Africa Malaria program, providing mosquito nets and malaria testing kits. Treatment is funded for sick children and other serious patients.

In education The Butterfly Tree has opened a high school, two pre-school and Special Education class at Mukuni besides adding additional classrooms and teacher’s houses. The schools of Kamwi,  N’gandu, Katapazi, Siamasimbi and Mandandi have also had new constructions to upgrade their classes. Each school has received vast amounts of supplies and sports equipment and several have feeding programs and gardens. In total we are supporting ten schools with three new ones to be built in 2011, two of these are in the Musotokwane Chiefdom.

Water

Water is life without it nothing can survive - we provide bore holes for communities and schools replacing water from crocodile infested rivers and bacteria infected streams

Food

Food is vital for development and concentration - we provide feeding progams in schools and formula for infants to replace breast milk in HIV positive mothers

Health

Health improvements - we provide funding for malaria prevention and HIV/AIDS programs in rural clinics, maternity care, medical supplies and treatment for sick children

Education

Education is the key - we provide an orphan sponsorship program, supporting over 400 African children in addition to building classrooms, teachers' houses and latrines

Sustainable Projects

Once a community has the essentials in life it is vital to introduce sustainable income-generating activities. The Butterfly Tree has initiated gardens for schools and a number of enterprises for women, including sewing, chicken and goat rearing.