Orphan Education Support - Zambian Villages

The Butterfly Tree, founded in 2006, is about to complete another successful year. In the past year we developed more schools, built a new health post, installed boreholes and toilets, and initiated sustainable income-generating projects for women and young people with disabilities, to provide food security.

Last month we successfully drilled three boreholes for Nguba Secondary school, and Kamusiku and Monono Primary schools and surrounding villages. Kasiya community also received a borehole where a training centre is to be built from women and local communities to learn about the best practices in agriculture. The participants will be given free training from an agronomist at the centre. 

We are currently developing sustainable food projects for women, and young people with physical and mental health challenges with the support from our GlobalGiving donors, and private contibutors. These will provide food security and income generation.

Every term we donate food for boarders, from remote villages, who attend Mukuni and River View Secondary School. In addition, all the orphans who are on The Butterfly Tree's Orphan Support programme regularly receive a bag of ground maize.

Water and food projects are paramount. On the 1st March, the President, Hakainde Hichilema, declared the prolonged dry spells in Zambia as a National Disaster and Emergency. ‘Today, with heavy heart, we address you, as our beloved country faces a severe drought, the worst of its kind, caused by the El Niño weather conditions in the 2023/24 rain season and influenced by climate change.’

Though we cannot help everyone we are sourcing funds to install additional water systems and to provide new innovative solutions to end hunger. Our aim is for more women to manage food security for their families and for income-generation.

Thank you to all our donors, volunteers and fundraisers for your tremendous support.

Links:

• The Butterfly Tree Newsletter - March 2024