{"id":2969,"date":"2010-06-28T07:27:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T07:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2012-08-16T11:36:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:36:22","slug":"mukuni-village-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2010\/mukuni-village-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukuni Village Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victoria Falls<\/a> is one of the seven natural wonders of the world and one of the most stunning sites in Africa. Mukuni Village<\/a> is just seven kilometres from this World Heritage site, a place of worship\u00a0for the local Leya people.\u00a0The forthcoming Lwiindi ceremony is celebrated by these indiginous people who call the falls ‘The Smoke that Thunders’. Thousands of tourists from all over the world visit this wondrous site, staying at luxury hotels such as the Royal Livingstone<\/a> and the Zambezi\u00a0Sun<\/a>, both owned by Sun International\u00a0and for a taste of Africa, Stanley Safari Lodge<\/a> or the Tongabezi Lodge<\/a>. All of these companies are supporting the charityand the village.
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\nMukuni Village tourists<\/strong>: 3 young girls from the Leya tribe of\u00a0the Mukuni Chiefdom<\/em><\/p>\n

While visiting the area there is an\u00a0option to take a cultural\u00a0tour to Mukuni<\/a>, to see the tribal people in their natural surroundings. Over the past four years\u00a0The Butterfly Tree<\/a> has received a substantial number of donations\u00a0from tourists who have been moved by the plight of these people and inspired by the work of the charity. The Butterfly Tree team are able to give a guidied tour of Mukuni, showing them\u00a0our many projects, the school children at work and the clinic in action, ending with a chance to purchase curios from\u00a0the\u00a0market.<\/p>\n

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Mukuni orphans receive tourists’ donations<\/em><\/p>\n

After visiting the village there are many ways in which the tourist can get involved and become a philanthropic traveller<\/a>. Either by a giving a\u00a0one off\u00a0donation towards a project,\u00a0offering on\u00a0going support\u00a0or the most popular\u00a0choice is to sponsor an orphan<\/a>. Many of the orphans are on the orphan sponsorship<\/a> program thanks to the generosity of tourists who have visited Mukuni. There is also the opportunity to return as a volunteer, something that several people have experienced and many wish to return.\u00a0Saga<\/a> guests include a visit to our projects as part of their itinerary and these tours\u00a0have been extremely fruitful. For our American philanthropers there is now an opportunity to donate through GlobalGiving US<\/a>, an organisation that helps non-profits to obtain US donations\u00a0using a 501 (c) 3 certificate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victoria Falls is one of the seven natural wonders of the world and one of the most stunning sites in Africa. Mukuni Village is just seven kilometres from this World Heritage site, a place of worship\u00a0for the local Leya people.\u00a0The More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7400,"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":[87],"tags":[15,35,40,9,24,22,39,23,32,11],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969"}],"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=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7398,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions\/7398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}