{"id":4710,"date":"2011-06-01T08:27:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T08:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=4710"},"modified":"2013-02-27T11:58:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T11:58:22","slug":"help-teachers-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2011\/help-teachers-in-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Help teachers in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being a teacher is no easy task with\u00a0all the\u00a0beaurocracy, administration,\u00a0numerous restrictions, ever-increasing violence in schools, it is no wonder that teachers need the\u00a0long breaks to recuperate. Being a teacher in Zambia<\/a> is challenging to say the least,\u00a0though for entirely different reasons. If you have trained\u00a0in Lusaka and lived in a house with electricity and plumbing, being sent to a remote rural village is a real shock to the system. When Zambian teachers qualify they have no choice\u00a0as to\u00a0where they will be located.<\/p>\n

\"Malima

Malima Community School House<\/p><\/div>\n

Schools such as Mukuni Basic<\/a>\u00a0and High rely upon\u00a0trained government teachers and with\u00a0a catchment\u00a0in excess of\u00a0twelve hundred pupils a considerable number are required. Sadly the government cannot provide adequate housing for these teachers and it is left to the school to meet the shortfall. Since building Mukuni High School, which opened in 2007, we have encountered all kinds of problems. Although The Butterfly Tree<\/a> has build some houses many more are needed in both Mukuni and Ngandu Villages.\u00a0Several teachers\u00a0who are residing\u00a0in Livingstone,\u00a0some distance from Mukuni, do not attend classes every day due to the cost of transport. Others have requested a transfer.<\/p>\n

\"Teacher's

The Butterfly Tree Teacher’s House for Siamasimbi Basic School<\/p><\/div>\n

When we upgraded\u00a0Ngandu School<\/a> in 2009 the community built two mud hut constructions to help ease the situation. This was fine until\u00a0an elephant sniffed out grain in one of the teacher’s kitchens\u00a0and uplifted the roof, as aresult\u00a0the teacher refused to return to her home. Ngandu, one of the oldest basic schools in Zambia,\u00a0built back in the nineteen forties\u00a0has over 500\u00a0pupils and feeds into Mukuni High School. Like Mukuni there are a considerable number\u00a0of orphans and many of them are on our orphan sponsorship<\/a> programme.<\/p>\n

\"Teachers's

Teachers’s kitchen destroyed by an elephant – Ngandu Basic School<\/p><\/div>\n

Today\u00a0starts\u00a0an appeal to invite anyone to donate<\/a> just \u00a35 to help these teachers who in turn can help the orphans who desperately need an education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being a teacher is no easy task with\u00a0all the\u00a0beaurocracy, administration,\u00a0numerous restrictions, ever-increasing violence in schools, it is no wonder that teachers need the\u00a0long breaks to recuperate. Being a teacher in Zambia is challenging to say the least,\u00a0though for entirely different More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4713,"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":[57,66,69,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710"}],"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=4710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8641,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions\/8641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}