{"id":181,"date":"2008-12-07T10:58:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T10:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/mukuni-education\/"},"modified":"2009-04-06T11:07:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T11:07:12","slug":"mukuni-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/mukuni-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukuni Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Education is the key to overcoming HIV and AIDS in Zambia<\/a>. The Butterfly Tree is now supporting five schools in the\u00a0Mukuni Cheifdom\u00a0and hopes to offer assistance to many more in the future. Ngandu School<\/a>\u00a0built in 1939 by Roman Catholics, was taken over by the government in 1966. Sadly very little has been done since that year\u00a0until The Butterfly Tree restored a classroom in 2007.<\/p>\n

Ngandu has over 400 pupils and is a feeder school to Mukuni High,<\/a> the pupils having to walk several miles each day.\u00a0We have now commenced the work on another 1×2 classroom block, which\u00a0is only partly\u00a0in use due to the structure being deemed dangerous. The standard of teaching in these remote villages is\u00a0extremely high but\u00a0unfortunately the facilities are very basic. Government funding is minimal, they have no electricity and very little equipment.<\/p>\n

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\nPupils at Ngandu School<\/a>\u00a0in the Mukuni Chiefdom<\/em><\/p>\n

Like many of the rural schools Ngandu is very short of teacher’s accomodation and we are currently raising funds to built a new house, we have the foundations in place and\u00a0a further \u00a33000 is needed to complete the project. The school also has a number of orphans, many of which are being education\u00a0through our orphan sponsorship<\/a> program.<\/p>\n

Your funds are vital helping to improve the lives of these vulnerable communities in the Mukuni Chiefdom<\/a>. The more schools we can assist – the more\u00a0children we can educate, then at least they have a chance in the future to reduce the number of orphans, as a result of this devastating desease. Please keep the funds flowing.\u00a0The Butterfly Tree\u00a02009 calendars <\/a>are selling really well, each page has been sponsored\u00a0enabling all the money\u00a0to go\u00a0directly to the cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Education is the key to overcoming HIV and AIDS in Zambia. The Butterfly Tree is now supporting five schools in the\u00a0Mukuni Cheifdom\u00a0and hopes to offer assistance to many more in the future. Ngandu School\u00a0built in 1939 by Roman Catholics, was More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1030,"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\/181"}],"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=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}