Courtney Pritchard, Author At Children In The Wilderness

Nov

CITW Zambezi Eco-Club Quiz – Livingstone

22nd November 2023Courtney PritchardZambia

We are thrilled to share with you the exciting news of yet another successful Eco-Club quiz hosted by the CITW Zambezi team – this time in Livingstone earlier this month. The event brought together seven of our Zambian Eco-Club schools from in and around Livingstone for a morning filled with fun, competition, and a deep...

Nov

CITW Zambezi Proudly opens its Tenth Literacy Centre

3rd November 2023Courtney PritchardZimbabwe

The CITW Zambezi team is proud to announce the successful establishment of its tenth Literacy Centre at Mizpah Primary School last month. As with all our other Literacy Centres, this initiative aims to create an informed, capable, and highly motivated environment to support students struggling with basic literacy skills and reading. We believe that these...

Nov

CITW Zambezi Brightening Futures, One Light at a Time

3rd November 2023Courtney PritchardZimbabwe

The CITW Zambezi team is thrilled to share the exciting news of their recent “Lights for Literacy” initiative. This involved the distribution of solar-powered lights to partner schools across Zimbabwe, with the aim of brightening the lives of students and teachers, while illuminating their paths to a brighter future. The lasting effects of this support...

Nov

CITW Zambezi – Lupane Eco-Club Camp 2023

1st November 2023Courtney PritchardZimbabwe

The Children in the Wilderness Zambezi (CITW) team is thrilled to share with you the incredible success of our recent annual camp hosted at the Painted Dog Conservation Centre’s (PDC) Inganyana Children’s Bush Camp. This four-day adventure brought together 40 students and 4 Eco-Mentors from our 8 CITW Lupane Eco-Clubs, all eager to explore and...

Sep

CITW Zambezi Celebrates International Literacy Day 2023

8th September 2023Courtney PritchardZimbabwe

Today CITW Zambezi, along with the rest of the world celebrates International Literacy Day, a day that is recognised annually to remind individuals, communities and societies of the importance of literacy as a matter of dignity and human rights. In addition to this, the day is celebrated in order to advance the literacy agenda for...

Sep

CITW & Mopane Snare Wire Jewellery

4th September 2023Courtney PritchardZimbabwe

A women and youth empowerment project initiated by Children in the Wilderness in collaboration with Jafuta Foundation. Just as the mopane tree brings optimism to the people and animals of Zimbabwe when the first trees burst into leaf after the long dry season, so too does our range of snare wire jewellery bring hope. The...

Aug

CITW Zambezi Eco-Club Quiz

23rd August 2023Courtney PritchardZimbabwe

As the second term of 2023 came to a close, the eight CITW Zambezi Eco-Clubs located in the Lupane District of Zimbabwe gathered for a fun-filled and competitive inter-club quiz. Mtshibini Primary proudly hosted the quiz in their beautifully set-up hall where four Eco-Club members who had been selected by their Eco-Mentors gathered to represent...

Jul

CITW Zambezi Literacy Centres

17th July 2023Courtney PritchardZambia, Zimbabwe

CITW has created nine Literacy Centres in our areas of operation in the Zambezi Region – seven in Zimbabwe and two in Zambia. In this short video, CITW Zambezi’s Assistant Programme Co-ordinator Cynthia Ndiweni explains more about the vision behind this life-changing initiative.

Jun

Sewing Machine Donation for Lukosi Secondary School, Zimbabwe

8th June 2023Courtney PritchardZimbabwe

Thanks to a few incredibly generous OAT travellers, CITW Zambezi has been able to make a greatly appreciated donation of four high-quality sewing machines to the Lukosi Secondary Textile Technology & Design Department. Prior to this donation, the school did not have easy access to any sewing machines, making the teaching of this highly practical...

Jun

CITW Zambezi Celebrates World Environment Day 2023

5th June 2023Courtney PritchardZambia, Zimbabwe

World Environment Day is celebrated every year on 5 June. It is the United Nation’s most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment. Above all, World Environment Day is the ‘people’s day’ for doing something to take care of the Earth. That ‘something’ can be focused locally, nationally,...

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