{"id":2945,"date":"2010-06-09T09:28:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T09:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2012-06-25T09:36:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T09:36:04","slug":"water-is-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2010\/water-is-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Water is Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

June, the start of the British summer. A time when\u00a0we embrace the\u00a0warm\u00a0sunshine, blue skies, light evenings\u00a0and\u00a0hope for rain-free days.\u00a0A time for planting out the garden, barbecues and Pimms.\u00a0During this period\u00a0many of us will be pumping thousands of litres of water onto our precious gardens, wash our cars and fill our swimming pools, while\u00a0children in Zambia<\/a> will be drinking from crocodile infested rivers.<\/p>\n

Zambia has a dry, wet and winter seasons. The rains abate at the end of March and can\u00a0rarely be seen before the end of October. Six months without rain, when the lush green vegetation turns into a dry parched terrain. Life in villages such as Mukuni<\/a> is challenging, life in\u00a0remote villages like Siamasimbi is tough. Water is life, without it nothing can grow. In the west it is taken for granted,\u00a0for African children<\/a> it\u00a0is a precious commodity. The Butterfly Tree’s aim is to provide safe, clean water to all the outreach communities in the areas of our work. To date we have provided seven bore holes in the Mukuni Chiefdom, two of them from private donors and five thanks to our partnership with Just a Drop<\/a>. We have also added nine new water tanks in Mukuni Village thanks to a generous donation from Saga Charitable Trust<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Water is life: <\/strong>dry stream\u00a0in Mukuni, a common scene\u00a0in the month of September<\/em><\/p>\n

African woman and children can be seen all over the continent walking long distances to obtain water<\/a>. Streams are shared for bathing, washing clothes,\u00a0drinking water and with animals, further increasing the risk of pollution.\u00a0The difference a bore hole can provide is enormous. No longer are the children at risk from being attacked by crocodiles, the risk of infection is considerably reduced. Earlier this year seven babies died in one village due to a water-born bacterial infection.<\/p>\n

Besides providing bore holes we set up a water committee\u00a0to\u00a0educate the community and\u00a0to teach the people basic\u00a0hygiene, maintenance skills and sustainablity. Five of the schools now have their own bore hole with Indian hand pumps and two with Playpumps, a wonderful concept whereby the children can pump their own water while playing on a merry-go-round. The schools are now able to have their own gardens to support the invaluable feeding programs.<\/p>\n

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Children happily pumping water safe, clean water\u00a0for Kamwi Basic School<\/em><\/p>\n

In conjunction with Small Charities Week<\/a> 14th-18th June we are promoting awareness for the one billion people who do not have access to safe, clean water and raising funds to support our water projects<\/a> in Zambia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June, the start of the British summer. A time when\u00a0we embrace the\u00a0warm\u00a0sunshine, blue skies, light evenings\u00a0and\u00a0hope for rain-free days.\u00a0A time for planting out the garden, barbecues and Pimms.\u00a0During this period\u00a0many of us will be pumping thousands of litres of water More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3446,"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":[73,85,72,53],"tags":[5,31,9,24,38,29,36,37,11],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945"}],"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=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6649,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/6649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}