By Jane Kaye-Bailey | Founder of The Butterfly Tree
ORPHAN SUPPORT
On the education front we received substantial funding to add two 1×3 classroom blocks and a solar system to N’gandu School. This is being done through a Community Works Project and once again we will host volunteers from Jersey to help with the construction. Arnewood School has raised funds for a boarding shelter at Mukuni, a group of their students will shortly travel to Zambia to volunteer.
Sinsimuku Community School is currently being developed with the construction of two classrooms, latrines and a teacher’s house. In addition a recent donation from a US volunteer will enable our young peer educators, formerly orphans sponsored by The Butterfly Tree to carry out more workshops in HIV prevention. Three of them, Peter, Natasha and Edwin, are currently being sponsored for a computer course. More orphans are to be sponsored over the next few months.
At the end of June we were contacted by our team in Zambia and told that they had found six children from Lumba Village that were not attending school. Four of them from one family and two from another family, all aged between 8 and 16 years, the younger ones had never attended school, while the older ones had to drop out due to lack of funds. On visiting their village the families were found to be extremely poor, they had very little clothing and no blankets for the cool winter months between June and August. The only food they ate was after visiting the local cafes late at night to beg for the 'leftovers'.
We are pleased to report that with our support all six children were enrolled in school within a week of finding them. Funds have been sent for uniforms, shoes, blankets and school fees.
We have a brand ‘new look’ website, kindly donated by Miranda de Freston, one of our trustees and owner of Morphity.
These generous offers of support and funds help to sustain our on going projects as well as allowing us to reach out to more orphans and remote communities in in the Southern Province of Zambia.
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