{"id":1628,"date":"2009-06-23T22:03:36","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T22:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2011-01-12T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T19:59:00","slug":"food-for-mukuni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/food-for-mukuni\/","title":{"rendered":"Food for Mukuni"},"content":{"rendered":"

One billion people throughout the world suffer from hunger, a figure which has increased by 100 million because of the global financial crisis,<\/strong> says the United Nations<\/a>. We\u00a0are all complaining\u00a0about the effect the world reccession is having\u00a0upon us, but do we give a thought as to how badly people are\u00a0affected in the developing countries. Lower incomes, unemployment, reduced foreign investment increase in food prices have attributed to a record number of people suffering from hunger and yet in the developed world relatively few are affected.<\/p>\n

Zambia<\/a> is in Sub-Sahara Africa where 265 million people are hungry, many relying on food aid.\u00a0In the past\u00a0twelve months\u00a0The\u00a0Butterfly Tree has provided bore holes to four schools and two villages in Mukuni<\/a> now we need to use that water to develop agriculture and for the communities to grow food so that they can become sustainable. I hear sad stories of African children<\/a> unable to walk the long distance to school due to lack of food,\u00a0pupils who are lethargic in class and have actually seen a number of\u00a0them fall asleep over their desks. I recently met a mother with twins who had walked three miles to the clinic, the infants were suffering from malnutrition, she hadn’t eaten for twenty-four hours having no money to buy a bag of ground maize. They are now receiving aid through our under fives feeding program.<\/p>\n

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Food for Mukuni – <\/strong>mother & twins\u00a0no longer\u00a0suffering from hunger<\/em><\/p>\n

More feeding programs are needed until these communities can become sustainable, a difficult task with ever increasing costs, floods and elephants destroying crops. The\u00a0Butterfly Tree is currently providing a feeding program, sponsored by Cunninghams<\/a>,\u00a0for over 500 vulnerable and orphaned\u00a0children at Mukuni Basic School<\/a>. We have just commenced a second program at Siamasimbi Basic School. Each day the pupils are given a nutritional meal of Nshima (ground maize), meat or dried fish (kapenta) and vegetables.<\/p>\n

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Feeding programs like this one at Mukuni needed for more schools<\/em><\/p>\n

We are seeking micro-financing so that groups of widows, schools and communities can grow crops, produce goats and chickens for meat and eggs, fish farming and fruit trees.<\/p>\n

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