{"id":1936,"date":"2009-09-27T20:40:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T20:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2011-01-13T08:27:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T08:27:58","slug":"new-homes-for-orphans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2009\/new-homes-for-orphans\/","title":{"rendered":"New homes for orphans"},"content":{"rendered":"

After working in temperatures reaching 35 degrees my sons, Mike and David\u00a0built four homes in Mukuni Village<\/a> for the elderly and widows with orphans. The senior headman selected the most deserving cases. All four houses were given to elderly people living in delapidated conditions and having to look after their grandchildren who have been orphaned through HIV\/AIDS in Zanbia<\/a>. As always transport is a huge issue but the guys used our 4×4 to ferry poles, mud, grasses and water, which speeded up the project.<\/p>\n

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David & Mike with a Mukuni Widow\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Widow with\u00a0two orphans in her new home<\/em><\/p>\n

Assisting the local builders –\u00a0firstly Mike and David\u00a0collected poles and grasses from the remote villages of Kamwi and Machenje, then the mud had to be dug from an area outside Mukuni<\/a> and the water fetched from the nearest bore holes. Each house\u00a0was built in stages, the poles\u00a0were put into the ground,\u00a0next the erecting\u00a0of the roof poles, then the expert thatchers got to work – each house needed eighty bundles of straw.<\/p>\n

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Mike unloading grasses\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0David carrying water<\/em><\/p>\n

Traditionally the women add the mud to the walls,\u00a0which has to be mixed with gallons of\u00a0water. Ladies from the local church took part donating their earned\u00a0income to the church. The final stage\u00a0was to put in the floor and paint the outside of the walls. It took two days to complete each house and thanks to everyone’s generous donations and Mike and David’s hard work four families in Mukuni<\/a> are now enjoying the comforts of their new homes.<\/p>\n

The Butterfly Tree’s<\/a> community houses cost \u00a3400 to build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After working in temperatures reaching 35 degrees my sons, Mike and David\u00a0built four homes in Mukuni Village for the elderly and widows with orphans. The senior headman selected the most deserving cases. All four houses were given to elderly people More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3835,"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":[74,70,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936"}],"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=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}