{"id":1648,"date":"2009-07-05T21:13:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T21:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2012-08-07T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T10:47:00","slug":"special-needs-for-mukuni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/special-needs-for-mukuni\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Needs Help for Mukuni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In most western countries children with physical or mental special needs are able to receive an education, <a title=\"African children\" href=\"\/about\/african-children\/\">African children<\/a> are\u00a0less fortunate. Last year the Zambian government provided\u00a0<a title=\"Mukuni Basic School\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/about\/mukuni-basic-school\/tp:\/\/\">Mukuni Basic School<\/a> with a special educational needs teacher\u00a0and that was\u00a0all. No materials, no equipment or transportation for children in outreach villages who are physically disabled, life is tough for these special African children.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2554\/3691660876_27269f3fe4.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"CIMG3077 by you.\" width=\"470\" height=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Special Needs for Mukuni<\/strong><\/em>: <em>Idrin Gani is disabled and now rides a donkey to school<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately thanks to two generous offers <a title=\"The Butterfly Tree\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/about\/\">The Butterfly Tree<\/a> is now able to set up a new program for these disadvantaged pupils at Mukuni Basic School.\u00a0<a title=\"St. James' Place Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sjp.co.uk\/portal\/internet\/stjamessplacefoundation?_DARGS=\/portal\/templates\/html\/sjp\/fragments\/second_level_menu.jsp.4_A%3A_D%3A\/sjp\/service\/MenuTrackerService.currentLevelTwoMenuItem&amp;_DAV=300008&amp;dsource=Second+Level+Menu+-+St.+James's+Place+Foundation\">St. James&#8217; Place Foundation<\/a> has given us a generous donation to purchase materials and equipment, after one of their\u00a0partners and his wife visited <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/about\/why-zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Leonnie Mangan who works for <a title=\"Fountaindale School\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fountaindale.ik.org\/p_Home.ikml\">Fountaindale School<\/a> in Mansfield, a Specialist SEN\u00a0 School and the largest\u00a0in\u00a0the UK, volunteered to go out to <a title=\"Mukuni\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/our-work\/mukuni\/\">Mukuni<\/a> with her sister in\u00a0July 2008. Working\u00a0on behalf of The Butterfly Tree they assisted at\u00a0<a title=\"Mukuni Health Ce\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2007\/mukuni-health-centre\/\">Mukuni Health Centre<\/a> and\u00a0school. After seeing how little funding the special education teacher had to run her classes, on her return home Leonnie got\u00a0her own school involved. Fountaindale have\u00a0offered to provide\u00a0some of the\u00a0essential books and materials and are currently looking into\u00a0setting up\u00a0a teachers&#8217; exchange program. The children at this school have also raised funds, one little boy who has to be intranenously fed said that he&#8217;d like to raise funds so that the African children could have some nice food.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great boost for <a title=\"Mukuni\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/our-work\/mukuni\/\">Mukuni<\/a>. The Butterfly Tree is also\u00a0raising funds\u00a0to purchase donkeys to transport the disabled children who are unable to walk to school. If anyone would like to <a title=\"Donate a donkey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/get-involved\/\">donate a donkey<\/a> the cost is \u00a370.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In most western countries children with physical or mental special needs are able to receive an education, African children are\u00a0less fortunate. Last year the Zambian government provided\u00a0Mukuni Basic School with a special educational needs teacher\u00a0and that was\u00a0all. No materials, no<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/special-needs-for-mukuni\/\"> More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7105,"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":[67,86],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648"}],"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=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7100,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions\/7100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}