{"id":4373,"date":"2011-03-25T13:43:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T13:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2011-03-25T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T18:25:08","slug":"caring-for-twins-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2011\/caring-for-twins-in-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Caring for twins in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a><\/a>I have many stories to tell from my recent trip to Zambia, no doubt the one which\u00a0many of our supporters have been waiting\u00a0to hear is the plight of the twin baby boys, whose mother died in childbirth with their triplet sister. For the past five months The Butterfly Tree has\u00a0provided support for\u00a0Elvis and Vincent after hearing about their premature birth and the loss of their mother. Each weighing barely three pounds (1.3 kgs) the twins were discharged from Livingstone in late November to be cared for by their grandmother in the\u00a0remote village of Kamwi.<\/p>\n

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With no available money the grandmother was struggling to cope, relying solely on gifts from well wishes. After hearing that the twins would not survive without powdered milk The Butterfly Tree stepped in. Three and a half tins of formula are consumed a week by these hungry boys. At seven pounds ($11) per tin this was an impossibility for most Zambians with an income let alone\u00a0someone from one of the poorest villages on the planet.<\/p>\n

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Vincent with his grandmother <\/p><\/div>\n

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Elvis with his aunt<\/p><\/div>\n

I was moved to tears when I returned to Kamwi and saw two\u00a0 plump,\u00a0\u00a0healthy and happy babies. The grandmother, with the help of her sister, has taken great care of them and the staff at Mukuni clinic\u00a0informed me that apart from a common cold they had\u00a0rarely been sick. They have had two tests for HIV,\u00a0both were clear and need only one more which we pray will be negative. Besides milk we have provided clothing, equipment and healthcare. Funding these helpless infants shows that it is vital to continue our support\u00a0to improve the lives of these\u00a0vulnerable people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have many stories to tell from my recent trip to Zambia, no doubt the one which\u00a0many of our supporters have been waiting\u00a0to hear is the plight of the twin baby boys, whose mother died in childbirth with their triplet More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4380,"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":[56,59,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373"}],"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=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}