{"id":191,"date":"2009-01-01T22:08:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T22:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/philanthropic-travelers-to-mukuni\/"},"modified":"2012-08-16T11:34:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:34:36","slug":"philanthropic-travelers-to-mukuni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/philanthropic-travelers-to-mukuni\/","title":{"rendered":"Philanthropic Travelers to Mukuni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Mukuni Village\" href=\"\/pages\/mukuni-village\/\" target=\"_self\">Mukuni Village<\/a> lies just seven kilometres from <a title=\"Victoria Falls\" href=\"\/pages\/2007\/victoria-falls\" target=\"_self\">Victoria Falls<\/a>, accessible by a good gravel road and home\u00a0to the Leya people. For a site-seeing tour with a difference a visit to <a title=\"Mukuni Village\" href=\"\/pages\/mukuni-village\/\" target=\"_self\">Mukuni Village<\/a> is a popular choice for toursits\u00a0traveling\u00a0in the Southern Province of Zambia. Sadly most of the children from <a title=\"Mukuni\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/our-work\/mukuni-village\/\">Mukuni <\/a>have not seen the <a title=\"Victoria Falls\" href=\"\/pages\/2007\/victoria-falls\" target=\"_self\">Victoria Falls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We have partnered with Exquisite Safaris who promote <a title=\"Philanthropic Travel\" href=\"\/pages\/about\/philanthropic-travel\/\" target=\"_self\">Philanthropic Travel<\/a> by sending their clients to visit a humanitarian project while on holiday.\u00a0 Exquisite Safaris<a title=\"Exquisite Safaris\" href=\"http:\/\/www.exquisitesafaris.com\/index.php\/journal\/more\/arabianbusiness_philanthropic_travellers\/\"> <\/a>donate some of their profits to <a title=\"The Butterfly Tree\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/about\/\">The Butterfly Tree<\/a> and our team on the ground meet the guests and give them a private tour of our projects. They get to meet the school children, visit the health centre and are able to interact with the people.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1037\" title=\"visiting Victoria Falls\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/visiting-victoria-falls.jpg\" alt=\"visiting Victoria Falls\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/visiting-victoria-falls.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/visiting-victoria-falls-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/visiting-victoria-falls-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>First visit to the <a title=\"Victoria Falls\" href=\"\/pages\/2007\/victoria-falls\" target=\"_self\">Victoria Falls<\/a> for Cynthia,\u00a0Angela and Esnat, sponsored by Jane &#8211; philanthropic traveler<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Feedbacks from these philanthropic travelers has been extremely worthwhile.\u00a0Without exception\u00a0everyone is \u00a0completely moved and humbled by the sites the experience and many have said the visit was the highlight of their entire tour of Southern Africa. We now have many of them from the UK, Europe and the US offering on going support to the charity\u00a0with over thirty tourists sponsoring orphans after meeting the children of <a title=\"Mukuni Village\" href=\"\/pages\/mukuni-village\/\" target=\"_self\">Mukuni Village<\/a>. More on <a title=\"Philanthropic Travel\" href=\"\/pages\/about\/philanthropic-travel\/\" target=\"_self\">Philanthropic Travel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mukuni Village lies just seven kilometres from Victoria Falls, accessible by a good gravel road and home\u00a0to the Leya people. For a site-seeing tour with a difference a visit to Mukuni Village is a popular choice for toursits\u00a0traveling\u00a0in the Southern<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/philanthropic-travelers-to-mukuni\/\"> More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1037,"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":[87],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"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=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7394,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/7394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}