Today marks World Water Day. Despite the UN’s International Decade for Action ‘Water for Life 2005–2015’, there are still over a billion people who have not got access to safe, clean water. Water is life, a commodity that we take More details >

It is now three years since I first went to Mukuni Village, which resulted in the founding of The Butterfly Tree. Having just spent three weeks in Zambia overseeing our programs and sourcing new projects it is very difficult to More details >

Today I am leaving for Zambia to oversee on The Butterfly Tree projects, catch up with all the children on our orphan sponsorship program and source new projects. It an exciting time for the Mukuni Cheifdom; thanks to generous donations from More details >

The Butterfly Tree has partnered with Buy One Give Twice, the UK’s premier charity auction site. If you have any unwanted Christmas presents, having an annual Spring clean or want to donate event tickets or holiday accomodation to raise money More details >

“Informing you that I am a girl, aged 15 years and was born on the 18th April 1993. My father died when I was one year and six months old and my mother died when I was three years old. More details >

“From the time you chose me to be one of the people to be sponsored I have really moved a step forward in my life. Since my father died on the 8th September of 2003, my life entirely depended on my cousin, More details >

When I met Idrin Gani at Chise Village in the Mukuni Cheifdom last October she had a terrible limp and one leg was much thinner than the other. I enquired as to what was wrong with her leg and she lifted her More details >

Jesse Musowe used to lived in Kamwi Village with her mother, twin brothers & step-father. She is now fifteen years old and in grade nine at Mukuni Basic School. To earn money to provide for the family her step-father had grown More details >

Oliver Kamwi lost his father when he was very young. His mother in order to earn money to feed her young, gave herself to men in return for payment, she has five other children to support, Oliver is the oldest. More details >

The Butterfly Tree website has got some great new additions, thanks to Miranda at Juggle Frogs who donates hours of her time and skills to helping the charity. Being a web designer she is able to use all the latest techonolgy keeping More details >