{"id":150,"date":"2008-09-22T07:44:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T07:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/feeding-time-at-mukuni-2\/"},"modified":"2009-04-06T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T10:44:10","slug":"feeding-time-at-mukuni-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/feeding-time-at-mukuni-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukuni needs more funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although <a title=\"The Butterfly Tree\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/about\/\">The Butterfly Tree<\/a> did not win\u00a0the <a title=\"Charity Times Award\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/charity-times-awards\/\">Charity Times Award<\/a> it was a great achievement to have been shortlisted to the final five and to be present amongst\u00a0many of the\u00a0well known charities.\u00a0These big organisations do a terrific job, but it is the smaller charities such as ours that are needed\u00a0to can fill in the gaps.\u00a0On several occassions\u00a0I have visited rural villages,\u00a0like <a title=\"Mukuni\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/our-work\/mukuni\/\">Mukuni<\/a>,\u00a0where the community have been given some bricks\u00a0and cement to build a classroom, to find that these materials were only enough to reach window level, resulting in\u00a0the project\u00a0being\u00a0abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>We desperately need to build more classrooms and teacher&#8217;s houses to advance the education in these remote villages. Although we are making good progress in <a title=\"Mukuni Village\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/our-work\/mukuni-village\/\">Mukuni\u00a0Village<\/a>\u00a0the teacher&#8217;s accomodation is appalling, we\u00a0are about to\u00a0complete our third house\u00a0but at least three more are needed. The Head Teacher has thirteen people living in his two bedroom house, five of them are orphans. With the ever increasing cost of living it pushes these\u00a0families\u00a0below the poverty line, which makes the <a title=\"Orphan Sponsorship\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?page_id=286\" target=\"_self\">orphan sponsorship<\/a> program a vital\u00a0support. As do the feeding programs, which enable the orphans and vulnerable children to receive a daily nutritional meal and\u00a0helps to lift\u00a0some of the burden\u00a0from their guardians.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1010\" title=\"mukuni-young-boys\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/mukuni-young-boys.jpg\" alt=\"mukuni-young-boys\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/mukuni-young-boys.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/mukuni-young-boys-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/mukuni-young-boys-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n\u00a0<em>Adolescents like these boys at Mukuni need nutritional meals<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0sponsoring an orphan\u00a0you can give a child hope; by\u00a0sponsoring a feeding program\u00a0you can remove the hunger from hundreds of children and by\u00a0funding a classroom\u00a0you can give these children the education to overcome their hardships &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/get-involved\/\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; color: #db9e72;\">Get Involved<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although The Butterfly Tree did not win\u00a0the Charity Times Award it was a great achievement to have been shortlisted to the final five and to be present amongst\u00a0many of the\u00a0well known charities.\u00a0These big organisations do a terrific job, but it<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/feeding-time-at-mukuni-2\/\"> More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/150"}],"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=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}