{"id":1837,"date":"2009-08-13T20:59:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T20:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2011-01-13T09:11:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T09:11:19","slug":"sponsor-zambian-orphan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/sponsor-zambian-orphan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsor Zambian Orphan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the school holidays under way and the children enjoying their summer break,\u00a0surprisingly\u00a0<a title=\"African children\" href=\"\/about\/african-children\/\">African children<\/a><a title=\"African children\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/african-children\/\"><\/a> actually prefer to be at school. Staying at home in a rural village holds very\u00a0little appeal. There are no televisions, computer games or toys to occupy them nor theme parks\u00a0and cinemas to visit; most children do not leave their villages, the cost and distance too great to venture away from their community. Sadly the majority of these children have not seen the Victoria Falls\u00a0despite\u00a0this spectacular site\u00a0lying just\u00a0seven kilometers from <a title=\"Mukuni Village\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/our-work\/mukuni-village\/\">Mukuni Village<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Life for an orphan is\u00a0tough, having to depend on a guardian or an elderly grandparent to provide accomodation and food is particularly difficult. These children have mainly been orphaned as a result of\u00a0the <a title=\"HIV and Aids in Zambia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/education-to-fight-hivaids-in-zambia\/\">HIV\/AIDS in Zambia<\/a> pandemic. School is their only hope, providing an education for these vulnerable children gives them a chance in life. Attending school is much more preferable than staying at home where there is nothing to do\u00a0other than\u00a0helping with the daily chores, fetching water, carrying wood and caring for their younger siblings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3961\" title=\"Zambian Orphan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/Zambian-Orphan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/Zambian-Orphan.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/Zambian-Orphan-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/Zambian-Orphan-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sponsor an Orphan: <\/strong>young children from Mukuni Village<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Butterfly Tree urges\u00a0everyone to <a title=\"Sponsor an orphan\" href=\"\/pages\/our-work\/education\/sponsor-an-orphan\/\">sponsor an orphan<\/a>; whether you are an individual, company or school\u00a0&#8211; for just \u00a395 per annum or\u00a0\u00a38 per month\u00a0a child can receive an educaton. We believe that every child has a right to education, something we take for granted in the west; there are\u00a0thousands of <a title=\"African children\" href=\"\/about\/african-children\/\">African children<\/a> who do not have this privilege. Our <a title=\"Orphan Sponsorship\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?page_id=286\" target=\"_self\">orphan sponsorship<\/a> program is overseen by a group of female volunteers who source the most vulnerable children and oversee their welfare, we are currently sponsoring over 200 orphans who\u00a0are benefitting from this program. To <a title=\"Sponsor an orphan\" href=\"\/pages\/our-work\/education\/sponsor-an-orphan\/\">sponsor an orphan<\/a> complete the form and donate using our secure online <a title=\"Donations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/get-involved\/online-donations\/\">donation<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the school holidays under way and the children enjoying their summer break,\u00a0surprisingly\u00a0African children actually prefer to be at school. Staying at home in a rural village holds very\u00a0little appeal. There are no televisions, computer games or toys to occupy<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/sponsor-zambian-orphan\/\"> More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3961,"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":[70],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837"}],"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=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}