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Food
Many Zambian children suffer from hunger, which effects their concentration and stamina. The Butterfly Tree provides a nutritional meal for vulnerable and orphaned children in six schools in the Mukuni Chiefdom. A balanced diet of n’shima (maize), beans, vegetables and kapenta (dried fish) will sustain the children, particularly those who have to walk such long distances to school.
Children from remote villages can walk as much as 10 miles each way to school, on only one meal a day. The Butterfly has initated a number of feeding programs in rural schools, providing a daily nutritional meal for some 2000 orphans and vulnerable children. Each school has been given…
The charity provides an under fives’ feeding program for undernourished children and to replace breastfeeding in mothers who are HIV positive. Formula is given to infants between six and twelve months to prevent the transmission of HIV. After this fortified porridge is used consisting of lacotgen, ground nuts, kapenta (dried fish) and vitamins….
Latest Happenings WITH OUR Food Projects
School Feeding Programmes
Seeds for Zambia
Alfred is not an orphan but his parents are seperated and have very little income. He attends school and makes clothes to generate some money. During my last visit to Mukuni Village I was horrified to learn that Alfred had attempted to commit suicide. When I was asked to counsel him I was…
World AIDS Day 2011
The Butterfly Tree HIV and AIDS Prevention
Today marks World AIDS Day. Over 30 million people have died from AIDS related causes. An estimated 33 million are living with HIV. 2.9 million of these are children. Around 68% of from sub-Sahara Africa. Zambia has the seventh highest prevalence in the world. Today gives the opportunity…
Success of orphan sponsorship
Sponsor an orphan in Zambia
Peter Liyungu was the first orphan to be accepted on The Butterfly Tree orphan sponsorship program, some five years ago, when we first started operating in Mukuni Village back in 2006. At the time despite being very intelligent, Peter had lost interest in his education after loosing both parents and having no funds…
Feeding Programs at Mukuni
Helped by Water Projects
Although the area where The Butterfly Tree works is not an area of famine there is a great deal of hunger, particularly amongst the children who have to walk a considerable distance to school. Leaving home at 4am, covering a distance of ten miles to reach school for…
Food for Mukuni
Hunger in Zambia
One billion people throughout the world suffer from hunger, a figure which has increased by 100 million because of the global financial crisis, says the United Nations. We are all complaining about the effect the world reccession is having upon us, but do we give a thought as to how badly…