{"id":2362,"date":"2010-01-16T21:53:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T21:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2011-02-15T12:17:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T12:17:33","slug":"development-for-kamwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2010\/development-for-kamwi\/","title":{"rendered":"Development for Kamwi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seeing the heartbreaking pictures coming out of Haiti confirms the importance of international aid work and the need for our support in developing countries. Life is a struggle on a daily basis but when something as catastrophic as an earthquake hits your community where do you turn for help? These people have not only lost everything but have little hope for the future. There is no social welfare or National Health Service and with the inevitable outbreaks of disease, shortages of water and food supplies life becomes unbearable for the survivors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Working in a country such as Zambia<\/a> I have seen\u00a0devastating loss and I know how\u00a0vital aid work is. However it is essential\u00a0that the funding and supplies are administered through the correct channels,\u00a0ensuring that it does not get into the wrong hands.\u00a0Being registered as a charity in Zambia as well as the UK has given\u00a0The Butterfly Tree<\/a> the opportunity to have a reliable and trustworthy team on the ground. They are able to initiate and oversee all our projects giving us regular reports and asking advice when needed. <\/span><\/p>\n

One of the biggest projects we will be tackling in the next couple of months is the development of Kamwi Basic School<\/a>, which currently has an intake of 130 pupils.\u00a0Kamwi is\u00a0in a\u00a0particularly poor area of Mukuni<\/a> with virtually no employment for the people.\u00a0The older children currently have to walk up to six miles to Mukuni Basic School<\/a>, hence the addition of a 1×3 classroom block and a teacher’s house the school will be\u00a0advanced to grades five, six and\u00a0seven. Four pit-latrine toilets will also be built, this project\u00a0is being funded by a grant from JOAC<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Twins from Kamwi Basic School<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

At present the pupils and teachers have to share the community bore hole,\u00a0a\u00a0twenty minute walk from the school;\u00a0shortly they will have\u00a0a\u00a0new well\u00a0thanks to a donation from Just a Drop<\/a>. The school is now being run by Sylvia Mulenga, wife of Presley Mulenga, Head Teacher of Mukuni Basic School and we\u00a0have every confidence\u00a0that\u00a0the development of Kamwi Basic School will give these children hope for a brighter future.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seeing the heartbreaking pictures coming out of Haiti confirms the importance of international aid work and the need for our support in developing countries. Life is a struggle on a daily basis but when something as catastrophic as an earthquake More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3688,"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":[68],"tags":[5,10,9,11],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362"}],"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=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}