{"id":4886,"date":"2011-07-31T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T10:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2013-02-27T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T11:52:12","slug":"education-sustainable-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2011\/education-sustainable-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Education & Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the past five years The Butterfly Tree<\/a> has concentrated on advancing the water, food, health and education facilities and has made a difference to the lives of\u00a0 thousands of people in the Mukuni Chiefdom and beyond. Now we are to take this a step further thanks to the help of international volunteers who will\u00a0be working with the charity to initiate projects which will include peer educating, improvement in education methods\u00a0and sustainability.<\/p>\n

Mutsa Marau<\/a> from London has spent the past year raising funds to visit Mukuni and introduce a peer education system at Mukuni Basic and High Schools. HIV\/AIDS remains the major problem within the Mukuni<\/a> community leaving almost fifty per cent of the children orphaned. One in six adults\u00a0is HIV positive and the longevity is merely thirty six years of age. Mutsa is determined to make her HIV and AIDS Prevention<\/a> project work;\u00a0educating pupils between the ages of twelve and twenty about the dangers of HIV, holding workshops and teaching\u00a0during her four month visit to the village.<\/p>\n

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Education improvements at Mukuni<\/p><\/div>\n

Joining Mutsa will be Petteri Alppi from Finland\u00a0who is a\u00a0student at University College<\/a>, London and a member of their Global Development Initiatives<\/a>.\u00a0Although the teaching standards in Zambia<\/a>\u00a0are good many pupils fail their exams due to a lack of materials and teaching staff. Petteri has compiled educational\u00a0data to help improve English and Mathematics skills at the schools. He will also assist the charity by documenting and producing videos of our projects, volunteering\u00a0and the\u00a0Zambian cultural way of life.<\/p>\n

For the third consecutive year Margaret Bax and Casey Short from Oregon will be returning to Mukuni to continue their work with sustainable projects. A successful chicken farming<\/a> enterprise has given a number of women an opportunity\u00a0to have an income-generating activity. Last year Margaret and Casey\u00a0started\u00a0a goat-rearing project to assist\u00a0The Butterfly Tree’s\u00a0under fives’ feeding\u00a0program<\/a>. One of our most successful projects to date this requires a large injection of funds and due to the high cost of formula only a limited number of infants can participate. The project provides formula, to\u00a0replace breast milk in women who are HIV positive, to prevent the transmission of the HIV virus from mother to child. Since 2007 all infants partaking on this program have been tested free of HIV.\u00a0The production of\u00a0goat’s milk will provide a nutritional supplement for this feeding program.<\/p>\n

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Sustainability – under fives’ feediging program, Mukuni Village<\/p><\/div>\n

Our aim is to make the Mukuni Chiefdom projects models\u00a0for other areas of need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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