{"id":1671,"date":"2009-07-10T21:09:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T21:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2011-01-20T20:42:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T20:42:21","slug":"schools-linked-to-mukuni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/schools-linked-to-mukuni\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools linked to Mukuni"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a young girl called Shaila wrote to me this week and told me that she\u00a0wanted to donate\u00a0\u00a330 of her birthday money to The Butterfly Tree<\/a> I\u00a0was\u00a0really\u00a0touched by this thoughtful gesture.\u00a0The charity\u00a0receives numerous donations from individuals, tourists, corporate and grants some of them substantial,\u00a0though none could have been more sincere than the gift from Shaila.<\/p>\n

Most African children<\/a> like\u00a0others from developing countries do not\u00a0receive birthday or Christmas gifts and in the orphanges a number of them don’t even have a date of birth, their ages have to be estimated. It is important to make our children understand that not every child is as priviliged as they are and to teach them to realise that for some safe, clean water and food are gifts,\u00a0commodities that we all take for granted.<\/p>\n

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We now have several schools\u00a0supporting The Butterfly Tree. Seeing how responsive these\u00a0pupils are after\u00a0talking to them and showing photos of the Mukuni<\/a> makes me realise that\u00a0every school should support a charity of some kind; linking with a school in a remote village of Zambia<\/a> is both educational and rewarding. It takes little effort: a non-uniform day could raise money to sponsor an orphan<\/a> or provide much needed educational supplies.\u00a0Having a\u00a0cake stall\u00a0as did our village school which brought\u00a0in \u00a3210 for an orphan and school materials.\u00a0One school is\u00a0currently raising funds for bicycles, while another is providing special needs equipment for\u00a0Mukuni Basic School<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whether you are a pupil, teacher\u00a0or a parent try to get your school involved and join the list of schools already supporting The Buttlerfly: Wolverton Primary, Marston Green Primary, St. Alban’s Primary, Fountaindale Specialist SEN, Arden School. If your school would like to sponsor an orphan<\/a> you can give a child an education and make a\u00a0difference to someone’s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a young girl called Shaila wrote to me this week and told me that she\u00a0wanted to donate\u00a0\u00a330 of her birthday money to The Butterfly Tree I\u00a0was\u00a0really\u00a0touched by this thoughtful gesture.\u00a0The charity\u00a0receives numerous donations from individuals, tourists, corporate and grants More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11867,"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":[80,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"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=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}