{"id":193,"date":"2009-01-10T22:17:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T22:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/education-under-a-mango-tree\/"},"modified":"2009-04-03T11:13:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T11:13:29","slug":"education-under-a-mango-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/education-under-a-mango-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambian Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Underneath a mango tree is where <strong>Zambian education<\/strong> is started for many children. I came across this little group of pre-school children when driving out to some remote villages in the\u00a0Mukuni Chiefdom\u00a0close to the Zambia-Zimbabwe border. Siachilobe has a population of just over one hundred, each day the older children have a three hour walk there and back\u00a0to <a title=\"Mukuni Basic School\" href=\"\/pages\/mukuni-basic-school\/\" target=\"_self\">Mukuni Basic School<\/a> and Mukuni High School. The nearest bore hole is over almost a mile away from the village and there is little employment within this community.<\/p>\n<p>Although English is Zambia&#8217;s national language children first learn to speak the local language called Tokaleya. Once a\u00a0<strong>Zambian Education<\/strong>\u00a0 is started at\u00a0pre-school they learn English through songs and\u00a0a makeshift blackboard,\u00a0having very few materials or books to learn from. We are hoping to build and fund more pre-schools like the one we have at Mukuni; this is totally funded by <a title=\"Mukuni pre-school\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gardiff.com\/charities.asp\">Gardiff<\/a>, a donor of\u00a0The Butterfly Tree who visited the village while on holiday. The government does not fund pre-schools and with our funding we are able to\u00a0provide two teachers and a classroom helper, besides\u00a0supplying all the neccessary books and materials.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/e-vSTaCLiJk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/e-vSTaCLiJk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<em>Start of Zambian Education: Pre-school children\u00a0taught under a mango tree in the Mukuni Chiefdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To help sustain the\u00a0Mukuni Pre-School The Butterfly Tree bought two sewing machines and fabric so that the teachers could make the school uniforms, they then sell them to provide extra funding for the pre-school&#8217;s needs.\u00a0One of my greatest pleasures\u00a0walking around\u00a0<a title=\"Mukuni Viillage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/our-work\/mukuni\/\">Mukuni\u00a0Village<\/a> is to see over two hundred young children receiving an education provided by the charity. We aim to\u00a0build more of these all important classrooms to facilitate young Zambians education, most especially the orphans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underneath a mango tree is where Zambian education is started for many children. I came across this little group of pre-school children when driving out to some remote villages in the\u00a0Mukuni Chiefdom\u00a0close to the Zambia-Zimbabwe border. Siachilobe has a population<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/education-under-a-mango-tree\/\"> More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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\/193"}],"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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}