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 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…
As it is not possible to fund feeding programs for each of the schools we support, every year we provide seeds for the rural schools to grow maize and vegetables. This enables them to dry the maize and store it for the…
As of 2012 we are no longer able to use formula for the under-fives’ feeding program. This is a government directive and we had have to source new ways of helping these vulnerable infants. Previously the charity provided an under fives’ feeding…
Latest Happenings WITH OUR Food Projects
2013 Support for Orphans
New Year Brings Hope for Orphans
It is almost seven years since I first stepped foot in Mukuni Village and visited their basic school. It was there that I learnt about the plight of the orphans – almost 50% of the children had lost one or both parents….
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…
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…
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…
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…