The Butterfly Tree has had an extremely successful year raising donations through grants, corporate and indivduals; the number of tourists who visit Mukuni Village has also boosted the funds. To view our annual report and accounts visit – click here Much More details >

I am delighted to announce that The Butterfly Tree charity has been short listed for the prestigious Charity Times Awards. This is a tremendous achievement as the judges commended the high calibre of entries in this year’s Awards. These Awards acknowledge and encourage best More details >

With the successful Beijing Olympics, costing over £20 billion to stage, finally over, it is truly amazing to see the likes of Kenya and Jamaica in thirteenth and fifteenth place respectively on the medal table. Both extremely poor countries and yet they More details >

President Mwanawasa passed away today in a Paris hospital, aged 59. Vice-President Rupiah Banda, who I personally met in February, is expected to be announced as the acting leader. He is a close friend of Chief Mukuni and I was More details >

The Butterfly Tree charity believes that every child has a right to education and by introducing an orphan sponsorship program we have given 120 children a chance to be educated through our charity. There are over 710,000 children orphaned in Zambia, primarily as a More details >

Mukuni’s Katapazi Clinic has three clinics to assist the people living in these rural villages. For the past two and a half years The Butterfly Tree has raised funds to support the Mukuni Health Centre improving the facilities, building a maternity clinic More details >

The last three months have been very eventful for The Butterfly Tree. In May we hosted a seminar on responsible tourism and Philanthropic Travel at the European Travel Distribution Summit; the organisers Eye for Travel named The Butterfly Tree as More details >

The highlight of any trip for an NGO has to be when a vision becomes a reality. For almost two years I have strived to complete a maternity clinic for the women in the Mukini Cheifdom. Having heard that many Afican women More details >

Of all the projects we have achieved in the Mukuni Cheifdom, providing a bore for rural villages has to be top of the list. Water, the most precious of commodities is taken for granted in our priveleged western world, but More details >

Although the HIV and AIDS in Zambia situation is not getting any worse it is not improving fast enough. Education is the key factor to fight the HIV and AIDS pandemic in Zambia. A quote from Avert, ‘as of 2005, More details >