Supporting United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty
The Butterfly Tree has expanded our work throughout the Kazunguala, Livingstone, Zimba, Kaloma Districts since it was founded in 2006. Our projects have reached remote schools and communities that have little of no support. The projects include water, food, health, education and sustainable community income-generating enterprises in the Southern and Western Provinces of Zambia.
Overview
Our work has provided vital water projects, which include 64 boreholes for schools and remote communities. We have opened a number of rural schools and have developed over forty more, with the addition of extra classrooms, teacher’s houses and latrines. Sustainable feeding programmes have assisted remote schools, which has helped to improve concentration and attendance in pupils who walk long distances to seek an education. We funded the first rural secondary schools in Mukuni and Sekute and have since developed ones at Riverview, Musokotwane and Nguba. The four special education units we built, were the first ever in rural schools.
Our health projects include the construction of nine new health centres, five maternity clinics and seven women’s shelters. We fund HIV and AIDS prevention workshops and malaria prevention initiatives, providing mosquito nets, and insecticidal coating and larvicide. Working with the Ministry of Health at National level we aim to support the government in their fight against malaria. Treatment is funded for sick children. In total we have given support to thirty health centres and Livingstone General Hospital. Over 200 community houses have been built for widows, the elderly and orphans.





