{"id":1484,"date":"2009-06-11T20:51:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T20:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2011-01-13T09:14:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T09:14:39","slug":"milestone-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/milestone-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Milestone for Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Butterfly Tree<\/a> has achieved a huge milestone. In the three years since we have been working at Mukuni Village<\/a> the charity has\u00a0raised over \u00a3250,000. Alongside this amazing amount\u00a0we have sent as much again in donated medical and education supplies, clothing, blankets and equipment. The lives of thousands\u00a0of people in the Mukuni Chiefdom<\/a> and their facilities\u00a0have been\u00a0improved with this funding. Over twenty villages and six schools are receiving support from the charity and communities throughout Zambia<\/a> are benefitting from the edcational DVDs we are distributing on behalf of TME<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Milestone for charity:<\/em><\/strong> Mukuni and<\/em> Ng’andu pupils supported by The Butterfly Tree<\/em><\/p>\n

From Hawaii to Australia\u00a0our supporters are helping us to make a difference. Individuals, schools, corporates and trusts have supported The Butterfly Tree<\/a> in our fight against world poverty. Worldeka is a collaborative platform designed to help you connect and create change and I am\u00a0thrilled to say that we have just won a camcorder for our dynamic profile page on their website. Although Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a> are great for social networking, Worldeka<\/a> is the social network with a conscious bringing together people who\u00a0are interested in charitable causes. You can hear the Mukuni children singing on Youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Daily I am receiving offers of support from the likes of Kabaso<\/a> who sell curios from Zambia donating all their profits to the charity, tour operators, schools wishing to raise funds for the African children<\/a> and individuals who\u00a0want to sponsor an orphan<\/a>. All of\u00a0this means that we can spread our work to other remote communities in Zambia.<\/p>\n

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Siamasimbi<\/strong>: providing health care\u00a0supported by the charity<\/em><\/p>\n

Our website is attracting donors from all over the globe, thanks to the dedicated work of Miranda De Freston of Juggle Frogs<\/a> donating the website and her time to improve the networking of The Butterfly Tree. We welcome Miranda onto our board of Trustees and Leonnie Mangan who\u00a0is setting\u00a0up a program for special needs children at Mukuni Basic School<\/a>, has joined our team and Mary Luckman and Ann Sutton\u00a0have volunteered to help with the administration.<\/p>\n

Much more needs to be done and there are many ways you can now help us reach half million pounds. Use everyclick<\/a> the search engine, every time you click it rasies money for charity and currently\u00a0you have\u00a0the chance\u00a0to win a Fiat 500 while raising money for The Butterfly Tree.\u00a0Buy Once give Twice<\/a> the charity auction site where you can add tickets, unwanted gifts or\u00a0holiday accommodation\u00a0and donate to the chartiy. Join us on Cleversquirrel<\/a> and raise money for The Butterfly Tree, without you haivng to give any new money. <\/span><\/strong>Buying and selling on ebay for charities, take part in a sporting activity or get involved with one of our projects at Mukuni<\/a>; anything however small can help us make a difference.<\/p>\n

We are delighted that\u00a0The Butterfly Tree is growing and still receiving funds despite the global crisis, thank you to everyone who has supported us. Zambia<\/a> like many developing countries has been badly affected by the west’s problems; these rural communites\u00a0need our charity – help us reach the next milestone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Butterfly Tree has achieved a huge milestone. In the three years since we have been working at Mukuni Village the charity has\u00a0raised over \u00a3250,000. Alongside this amazing amount\u00a0we have sent as much again in donated medical and education supplies, More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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\/1484"}],"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=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}