{"id":2924,"date":"2010-05-29T18:06:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T18:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2012-08-07T10:48:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T10:48:04","slug":"volunteers-at-mukuni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2010\/volunteers-at-mukuni\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers at Mukuni"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the past twelve months we have been inudated with requests from people who want to volunteer at Mukuni<\/a>. My son, Mike and his friend Lucy have just returned after spending two weeks working on The Butterfly Tree<\/a> projects. Mike as a member of the charity, was able to check on our projects and visit several of the outreach\u00a0schools where building construction is underway. The 1×3 classroom block at Kamwi Basic School <\/a>is almost complete and a\u00a0teacher’s house is currently being built; with the addition of a bore hole and feeding program, the children\u00a0of this very poor, remote village will have a chance\u00a0to improve their situation.<\/p>\n

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Volunteers at Mukuni:<\/strong> Lucy working\u00a0at the\u00a0pre-school\u00a0\u00a0 Mike visiting lions at ‘Mukuni Big Five’<\/em><\/p>\n

A visit to Siamasimbi was also included now that the rains are over and the village is again accessible. Mike spoke to the entire community who rejoiced\u00a0when he announced that\u00a0the charity is\u00a0to build a 1×2 classroom block and a teacher’s house for the school. At Mukuni massive construction\u00a0is underway –\u00a0a 1×3 classroom block for grades eight and nine, a classroom for special education and an additional\u00a0one for The Butterfly Tree pre-school. It was here were Lucy spent most of her days as a volunteer, teaching English to the young African children<\/a>. With some of the funds she and Mike raised, three schools were presented with exercise books,\u00a0pens and educational material.<\/p>\n

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New classrooms for Kamwi Basic School & Special Education at Mukuni<\/em><\/p>\n

The remainder of the funds raised by Mike and Nigel Birch\u00a0through their sponsored cycle<\/a>, were used to set up a goat-rearing project for women. Half the profits will be used\u00a0to create\u00a0a self-sustaining income and the other half will be offered to help the disabled people of Mukuni Village<\/a>. There is always an opportunity for volunteers to help either at the school, clinic or work on a community project so long as they fund their own travel and accommodation. Not only is there the opportunity to help these vulnerable people, it is an amazing place to visit. The village is just\u00a07 kilometres\u00a0from one of the most spectacular areas in Africa, the magnificnet Victoria Falls<\/a>. We can\u00a0give advice on where to stay, transportation\u00a0and make the arrangements\u00a0to work with the ground team.\u00a0All we ask in return is for the volunteers to do some fundrasing or give a donation to a project of their choice. Many of these volunteers have expressed a wish to return to Mukuni or get involed with The Butterfly Tree charity.\u00a0Some of them\u00a0sponsor an orphan<\/a> and others have donated generously. If you would like to find more about the chance to volunteer please contact jane@thebutterflytree.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the past twelve months we have been inudated with requests from people who want to volunteer at Mukuni. My son, Mike and his friend Lucy have just returned after spending two weeks working on The Butterfly Tree projects. Mike More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7106,"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":[86],"tags":[31,35,33,9,24,22,23,21,32,34],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924"}],"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=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7102,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions\/7102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}