{"id":71,"date":"2008-06-14T07:17:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T07:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/donations-from-victoria-falls\/"},"modified":"2012-08-16T11:33:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:33:57","slug":"donations-from-victoria-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/donations-from-victoria-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Falls Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"

During my\u00a0talks at various travel exhibitions I always state that if tourists were made more aware, by their tour operators,\u00a0of the poverty surrounding their luxury resorts,\u00a0then they would be more inclined to give a donation.<\/p>\n

One tour company, Exquisite Safaris and one of our partners\u00a0insists\u00a0on\u00a0sending their clients to visit a humantarian project as an essentail part of their itinerary.\u00a0Exquisite Safaris<\/a> is the pioneer in luxury Philanthropic Travel<\/a> and\u00a0donates $US250 for every\u00a0client who visits an NGO project and The Butterfly Tree is fortunate to be operating in a catchment area, being so close to the Victoria Falls<\/a>, where tourists can make daily visits\u00a0to Mukuni Village<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Victoria<\/p>\n

This year we have received many offers of\u00a0visitors wishing to\u00a0sponsor an orphan<\/a> or give a donation\u00a0to\u00a0this rural community\u00a0and just as I was so touched on my first visit to Victoria Falls, others have felt the same. I am delighted to say that several of these people have come ‘on board’ to raise further funds and awareness for The Butterfly Tree.<\/p>\n

Zambia is experiencing a ‘boom’ in tourism and as\u00a0an NGO in Zambia<\/a> I am dedicated to getting more tour operators, lodges, hotels and tourists\u00a0involved in ‘giving something back’. Just a small donation<\/a> could make a difference to someone’s life and a more substantial one could build a bore hole, providing safe, clean water for hundreds of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During my\u00a0talks at various travel exhibitions I always state that if tourists were made more aware, by their tour operators,\u00a0of the poverty surrounding their luxury resorts,\u00a0then they would be more inclined to give a donation. One tour company, Exquisite Safaris More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7392,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/7392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}