{"id":4941,"date":"2011-08-12T06:33:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T06:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2013-02-27T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T11:51:07","slug":"childrens-health-and-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2011\/childrens-health-and-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Children’s Health and Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Butterfly Tree is the beneficiary\u00a0of a\u00a0fundraising campaign initiated by Jim Cochrane, CEO\u00a0of ENRC Marketing AG<\/a> based in Zurich. When Jim suggested that one of his colleagues should grow a moustache to raise funds for charity,\u00a0the flippant remark\u00a0developed into a challenge to\u00a0raise funds for an NGO<\/a>\u00a0working in one of the countries where ENRC operate. Unknown to The Butterfly Tree we were being strutinised along with hundreds of other charities\u00a0that provide education, health and social care\u00a0for disadvantaged children throughout Africa, Asia and South America.<\/p>\n

The campaign had been organised by Marilena and Tatiana who worked\u00a0tirelessly to coordinate\u00a0the objective\u00a0until they reached their target of 20,000 Swiss francs. Eventually three charities were selected and the employees had to vote on a winner. Amazingly The Butterfly Tree<\/a> was chosen as the charity having the best records of proven transparency\u00a0and\u00a0for the fact that\u00a0we\u00a0are all volunteers both in the UK and Zambia<\/a>. In just one month the employees at their Zurich office, helped with match funding from head office in London, raised a staggering $27,000 (over \u00a316,000).<\/p>\n

\"Donation

Funds for Children’s Health & Education: Jane with ENRC Marketing employees<\/p><\/div>\n

I was invited to Zurich<\/a> where I gave a presentation on our work in Zambia before receiving this generous cheque. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet all the participants and to see the collection of moustaches and beards. The perfect day ended with a summer party on board a boat which sailed across Lake Zurich<\/a>. I felt very privileged to be with such an\u00a0caring\u00a0group of people and inspired after learning that\u00a0The Butterfly Tree\u00a0was their preferred charity.<\/p>\n

\"Fundraising

Fundraising campaign raise $27,000 for The Butterfly Tree<\/p><\/div>\n

The funding will be used to build a teacher’s house at Mukuni Village<\/a>, five community houses<\/a> for orphans and the remainder will be used to\u00a0boost\u00a0our HIV\/AIDS prevention <\/a>projects for children, which will include peer education, worshops and feeding programmes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Butterfly Tree is the beneficiary\u00a0of a\u00a0fundraising campaign initiated by Jim Cochrane, CEO\u00a0of ENRC Marketing AG based in Zurich. When Jim suggested that one of his colleagues should grow a moustache to raise funds for charity,\u00a0the flippant remark\u00a0developed into a More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4958,"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":[85,57,56],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941"}],"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=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8633,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions\/8633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}