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Water
The Butterfly Tree’s aim is to provide safe, clean water to all the outreach communities in the areas of our work.
The most important thing to do before developing a school or community is to ensure they have have safe, clean drinking water. Without this no real progress can be made. The Butterfly Tree has initiated seven bore holes; five in schools and two in villages of Chise and…
The playpump gives an added bonus to schools when a bore hole has been added. The children spin the ‘merry-go-round’ to pump clean water from underground, which is stored in a 2,500 litre tank. This Playpump at Katapazi is one of two that have been donated to the…
Poor sanitation can lead to communicable diarrhoeal diseasess and other health problems. Where there is no sanitation communities have to use the bushes and streams, which are also used for drawing drinking water. The Butterfly Tree has donated over 30 pit-latrines to schools
Latest Happenings WITH OUR Water Projects
Charity Newsletter April 2011
Health and Education Improvements for Zambia
My recent trip to Zambia proved to be both fruitful and challenging. With persistent heavy showers throughout the month, driving to some to the outreach villages was difficult to say the least. The six major projects initiated in 2010 are now complete – a 1×3 classroom block for…
Water is Life
Water Africa
June, the start of the British summer. A time when we embrace the warm sunshine, blue skies, light evenings and hope for rain-free days. A time for planting out the garden, barbecues and Pimms. During this period many of us will be pumping thousands of litres of water onto our precious gardens, wash our cars and…
World Water Day
Four new bore holes for Mukuni
Today marks World Water Day. Despite the UN’s International Decade for Action ‘Water for Life 2005–2015′, there are still over a billion people who have not got access to safe, clean water. Water is life, a commodity that we take for granted in the west, but when you…
Mukuni Fund Raising
Auction items for The Butterfly Tree
The Butterfly Tree has partnered with Buy One Give Twice, the UK’s premier charity auction site. If you have any unwanted Christmas presents, having an annual Spring clean or want to donate event tickets or holiday accomodation to raise money for The Butterfly Tree contact us and we…
Water for Mukuni Villages
Safe water for thousands of Mukuni people
We have all complained about the heavy rainfall this summer, not giving a thought to the fact that our rivers and reservoirs are full, enabling us all to have an abundance of water for drinking, bathing, washing and watering the garden. When you have to rely on unpurified river water…