{"id":2520,"date":"2010-01-30T11:12:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T11:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2011-01-13T09:02:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T09:02:16","slug":"special-education-for-mukuni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2010\/special-education-for-mukuni\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Education for Mukuni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life in Zambia is tough for a school child, especially if you an orphan and have little financial support to pursue your education. Life is is even tougher if you are a child with physical or mental disabilities. <a title=\"The Butterfly Tree\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/our-work\/\">The Butterfly Tree<\/a> has been working on a number of ways that we can help these disadvanteged children. Now thanks to some amazing offers we are able to set up a Special Education department.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Besom\" href=\"http:\/\/www.besom.com\/\">The Besom<\/a> has generously donated funds to buy the materials for a classoom block to be built at <a title=\"Mukuni Basic School\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/about\/mukuni-basic-school\/\">Mukuni Basic School<\/a>. The charity and community will supply the labour costs. We have also received a grant from <a title=\"St. James' Place Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sjp.co.uk\/portal\/internet\/stjamessplacefoundation?_DARGS=\/portal\/templates\/html\/sjp\/fragments\/second_level_menu.jsp.4_A&amp;_DAV=300008&amp;dsource=Second+Level+Menu+-+St.+James's+Place+Foundation&amp;dsource=Google+-+St.+James's+Place+-+www.sjp.co.uk\">St James Place Foundation<\/a> Newbury Office,\u00a0which will pay for materials and uniforms for the pupils. <a title=\"Fountaindale School\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fountaindale.ik.org\/\">Fountaindale Special School<\/a> in Mansfield, who caters for children with severe disabilities are offering on going support\u00a0through fundraising and the provison of materials. They\u00a0have held a number of events to raise funds for these <a title=\"African children\" href=\"\/about\/african-children\/\">African children<\/a> who they believe to be worse off than they are. I\u00a0am so\u00a0touched by the genorosity of this school as their pupils need so much care and yet their selflessness will improve the lives of\u00a0children who need special education in <a title=\"Mukuni Village\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/our-work\/mukuni-village\/\">Mukuni Village<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3684\" title=\"Speciail-Education-Mukuni\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/Speciail-Education-Mukuni-475x356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Special Education for Mukuni: <\/strong>Siabajene has learning difficulties<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This will be a great\u00a0advancement for Mukuni and Zambia education as very little is available from the government who will only provide a teacher. To further enhance this project you can donate a <a title=\"Get involved\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/get-involved\/\">donkey<\/a> to transport a disabled child to school or<a title=\"Sponsor an orphan\" href=\"\/pages\/our-work\/education\/sponsor-an-orphan\/\" target=\"_self\"> sponsor an orphan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life in Zambia is tough for a school child, especially if you an orphan and have little financial support to pursue your education. Life is is even tougher if you are a child with physical or mental disabilities. The Butterfly<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2010\/special-education-for-mukuni\/\"> More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3684,"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":[57,66,67,1],"tags":[5,15,9,6,16,14],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520"}],"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=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}