{"id":11230,"date":"2015-10-27T11:41:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T11:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=11230"},"modified":"2016-05-19T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T11:14:10","slug":"supporting-orphans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2015\/supporting-orphans\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Orphans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There are 1.2 million orphans in Zambia<\/strong>, primarily as a result of\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/our-work\/health\/hiv-and-aids-education\/\">HIV and AIDS<\/a> pandemic. All the work done by The Butterfly Tree in Zambia revolves around\u00a0the well-being of these\u00a0vulnerable children. Every school we work in has orphans &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/about\/where-we-work\/mukuni-village\/\">Mukuni Village<\/a> has the highest number with a staggering 600 children, over 50%, losing one or both parents!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t9Lc6SlVGd0\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In October 2010 I had to deal with one of the most heartbreaking situations I have ever encountered. Baby boys, Elvis and Vincent, were born two months premature, after their mother went into early labour. She died during\u00a0<span class=\"_58cl\"><a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/childbirth?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=909245089122734\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\">\u202a<\/a>childbirth<\/span>\u00a0with a third baby. The hospital could not help them, so when they were just two weeks old, each weighing less than 3lbs, they were sent home, to the remote village of K<span class=\"_58cl\">amwi.<\/span>\u00a0The Butterfly Tree has since supported these adorable little\u00a0boys. I am overjoyed to tell you that this month they celebrated\u00a0their fifth birthday!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11232\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/P1040013.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11232\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11232 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/P1040013-475x356.jpg\" alt=\"P1040013\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KAMWI TWINS, VINCENT AND ELVIS &#8211; AGED 5<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our programme has helped hundreds of orphans, and has enabled them to stay with their friends instead of having to go into orphanages.\u00a0The first orphan we ever sponsored was Peter Liyungu, who went on to complete\u00a0high school and is now being sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-teamworks.co.uk\/\">Teamworks<\/a> to go to college. Peter and another sponsored orphan, called Charity, recently did their work experience at Mukuni\u00a0and will shortly\u00a0qualify as teachers. While Josias is volunteering at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/our-work\/education\/ndele-basic-school\/\">N&#8217;dele School<\/a> until he is offered a permanent teaching post.<\/p>\n<p>For us to reach out to more orphans we are streamlining\u00a0the programme. It will remain the same for every orphan who is currently being sponsored.\u00a0In\u00a0future rather than sponsoring individual orphans people can donate towards school fees and uniforms, this way hundreds more children can be given a chance to complete their education.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11253\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/Bupe-Katebe.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11253\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11253 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/Bupe-Katebe-475x356.jpg\" alt=\"Bupe Katebe\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BUPE, FROM AT KAMWI SCHOOL, PROUDLY SHOWING HER NEW UNIFORM<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As always education is the key to overcoming poverty and its related issues. We are very grateful to all our sponsors who <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/get-involved\/online-donations\/\">donate<\/a><\/strong> essential\u00a0funds towards this programme, the guardians who look after the orphans and the volunteers who oversee the welfare of these very special children.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thebutterflytreecharity\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/butterflytree\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 1.2 million orphans in Zambia, primarily as a result of\u00a0the HIV and AIDS pandemic. All the work done by The Butterfly Tree in Zambia revolves around\u00a0the well-being of these\u00a0vulnerable children. Every school we work in has orphans &#8211;<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2015\/supporting-orphans\/\"> More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11234,"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":[57,105,70,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230"}],"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=11230"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11842,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230\/revisions\/11842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}