{"id":2857,"date":"2010-05-07T22:36:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T22:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2011-01-20T20:40:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T20:40:35","slug":"fundraising-for-mukuni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2010\/fundraising-for-mukuni\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising for Mukuni"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the great things about\u00a0running a charity\u00a0to help orphans is the enormous amount of interest and support\u00a0it attracts. Now that we\u00a0have been operating for\u00a0over four year and have\u00a0been able to achieve a great deal, we are getting a considerable amount of offers from individuals, schools and churches who genuinely want to help us make a difference. Besides\u00a0collecting donations, they are doing their own fundraising activities\u00a0to assit our programs\u00a0in communities such as Mukuni<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the 2nd May Mike Kaye and Nigel Birch<\/a> set off at\u00a006.00, from London’s Trafalgar Square, to cycle 165 miles to Nottingham. Much of their journey was cycling in torrential rain, facing north-easterly winds\u00a0with temperatures barely reaching eight degrees. An arduous challenge to complete in one day. At 22.10 they finally arrived at Escucha<\/a> in Nottingham to down a few well deserved pints! Mike is now on his way to Zambia with Lucy Machin to volunteer at Mukuni Village<\/a>, the funds raised will be used\u00a0for sport and educational materials.\u00a0Later this month Jake Wilson-Gunn and Andrew Mottram will be cycling from Lands End to John O’ Groats. Others have done sponsored walks, swims and the iron-man challenge.\u00a0Several schools have raised funds to sponsor an orphan<\/a> and\u00a0supplied\u00a0bicyles for children in outreach\u00a0villages to\u00a0travel to Mukuni schools.\u00a0Several churches have donated their collections to buy educational materials\u00a0as well\u00a0as supporting the orphan sponsorship<\/a> program.<\/p>\n

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Fundraising for Mukuni:<\/strong> Mike & Nige cycled 165 miles from London to Nottingham <\/em><\/p>\n

The local Rotary and Inner Wheel Clubs have also been a great support, particulary building hokmes for the vulnerable.\u00a0This month\u00a0Basement Entertainment<\/a> and\u00a0the UK Zambian community\u00a0held a fundraising event in London, where our charity song ‘Change for the Better’ <\/a>was launched to increase global awareness and raise funds for our malaria program. One new fundrasing initiative we have started is to collect empty ink cartridges and old mobile phones for recycling. Empty Cartridges will provide a pre-paid envelope with The Butterfly Tree<\/a> logo for you to\u00a0send to them for recycling; in return they will donate to the charity for every item received. Any amount, however small or whichever way you chose to help,\u00a0can improve the health and education of the those less fortunate in Zambia.<\/p>\n

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Donated bicycles for long distance travel\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0New home for widow with orphans<\/em><\/p>\n

If anyone is interested in doing a challenge or an event, it need not be as strenous as a marathon or a cycle ride, a sponsored walk or\u00a0simply making cakes as Lucy did and raised almost \u00a3100 by selling them to her office colleagues!\u00a0We\u00a0can provide you with advertising material, sponsorship forms and suggest ideas.\u00a0 The Butterfly Tree\u00a0team is very grateful to all\u00a0those\u00a0generous people who have already participated and especially to\u00a0the ones who are offering on going support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the great things about\u00a0running a charity\u00a0to help orphans is the enormous amount of interest and support\u00a0it attracts. Now that we\u00a0have been operating for\u00a0over four year and have\u00a0been able to achieve a great deal, we are getting a considerable More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[80,1],"tags":[27,26,9,24,22,23,25],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857"}],"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=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}