{"id":1386,"date":"2009-05-25T08:17:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T08:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2009-08-05T10:07:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T10:07:15","slug":"orphans-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/orphans-in-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphans in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Losing a parent\u00a0is\u00a0heartbreaking for any child;\u00a0then\u00a0having to give up your education makes it almost unbearable. This is the case of many orphans in Zambia<\/strong>. In the six Zambian schools supported by The Butterfly Tree<\/a> there are almost 1000 orphans. To date we are sponsoring\u00a0175 children and desperately need more\u00a0 donors to\u00a0sponsor orphans\u00a0in Zambia. On my last trip to Mukuni Village<\/a> I was staggered\u00a0to meet over sixty children\u00a0who could not meet their school and exam fees. By giving a child an education it is not just giving them a chance in life it is also giving them hope.<\/p>\n

Mukabalenga was one of the first orphans in Zambia to be on\u00a0The Butterfly Tree orphan sponsorship<\/a> program and writes the following letter to her sponsor:<\/p>\n

“It’s really beyond human understanding for me to have this opportunity of writing this letter to you, hope and trust all is well with you, as for me not so bad. I really appreciate your support, I don’t how I can express my appreciation. You are playing an important role in my life such as that I cannot think of my dead parents. I don’t have much to say only words of thanks dwelling in my heart.”<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Mukabalengu
\nOrphans in Zambia: <\/strong>Mukabalenga Siachanane at Mukuni Basic School<\/em><\/p>\n

By paying for the orphans’ schooling, which covers school and exam fees, books, uniforms, shoes and school bag someone in the villages will accommodate them. This\u00a0way the\u00a0orphans do not have to be sent to the orphanages in Livingstone. Often it pushes the guardians further below the poverty line but at least the orphans are able to remain at the school with their friends, the teachers are very generous\u00a0some of them having as many as five orphans living with them. Presley Mulenga, Head Teacher at Mukuni Basic School<\/a> has five of his own chilren plus seven orphans living with he and his wife in his two-bedroomed house. The Butterfly Tree<\/a> offers a\u00a0daily feeding program to orphans in Zambia, sponsored by Cunninghams<\/a>,\u00a0to over 500 vulnerable children providing them a nutritional meal in addition to their morning porridge.<\/p>\n

It costs only \u00a395 ($150) to sponsor\u00a0orphans in Zambia, alternatively \u00a38 per month. I believe that every child has a right to education. Many more like Mukabalanga urgently need your help. To find out more\u00a0visit our orphan sponsorship<\/a>\u00a0page. See the orphans singing with the choir on Youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Losing a parent\u00a0is\u00a0heartbreaking for any child;\u00a0then\u00a0having to give up your education makes it almost unbearable. This is the case of many orphans in Zambia. In the six Zambian schools supported by The Butterfly Tree there are almost 1000 orphans. To More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11868,"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":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386"}],"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=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}