{"id":1123,"date":"2009-04-10T21:40:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T21:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2011-01-06T18:10:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T18:10:25","slug":"food-for-mukuni-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/food-for-mukuni-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Food for Mukuni Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether it’s a school meal or a packed lunch all our children receive something to get them through the school day. When you have to leave home\u00a0at 4am for a three hour walk to school\u00a0to start lessons at 7am by mid morning the hunger pains begin. There is no\u00a0morning porridge because the supplies have run out and your family are too poor to provide a packed lunch or fund something from the tuck shop, by noon you become tired and lethargic. The afternoon activities are a struggle, exams are even tougher, it becomes difficult to concentrate. The walk back home takes longer as the hunger increases.<\/p>\n

This is what happens in Mukuni<\/a> and many areas that have been affected by HIV and Aids in Zambia<\/a>. People are so poor that\u00a0a great number\u00a0only eat one meal a day,\u00a0comprising of\u00a0ground maize, vegetables and ground nuts. Chicken, bread, rice, eggs and milk are all luxuries. To help overcome this problem The Butterfly Tree<\/a> provides a daily feeding program for Mukuni schools sponsored by Cunninghams<\/a>. Over 500 children receive\u00a0a daily nutritional meal, vital for the growth and development of any child.<\/p>\n

\"Mukuni
\nSweets a rare treat for Mukuni children<\/em><\/p>\n

Now we need sponsors for the other schools\u00a0in the Mukuni Chiefdom:\u00a0Kamwi, Ngandu, Siamasimbi and Katapazi. Not only are the school children\u00a0hungry, during my last visit I met a young woman from Machenje Village, she had brought her twins to\u00a0Mukuni Health Centre<\/a>\u00a0to be weighed having walked the three miles\u00a0from her home.\u00a0The infants were fourteen months old, both suffering from malnutrition, the mother had no milk to feed her babies. She told me she hadn’t eaten since the day before.<\/p>\n

The Butterfly Tree\u00a0funds an under fives\u00a0feeding program to\u00a0replace breast milk in mothers who are HIV positive, transmission of the disease is then prevented. Unfortuantely formula in Zambia is very costly therefore we are introducing goats milk, a high source of nutrition and a way of providing a sustainable income to the\u00a0milk produces. Women who have benefited from the program have voluntered to\u00a0help with the running of this. These\u00a0feeding programs are essential for the develpoment of\u00a0children who are the future of\u00a0Zambia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whether it’s a school meal or a packed lunch all our children receive something to get them through the school day. When you have to leave home\u00a0at 4am for a three hour walk to school\u00a0to start lessons at 7am by More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[63,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}