Josephine Bestic, Author At Children In The Wilderness

Feb

CITW Botswana Refurbishes Parakarungu PS Poultry Enclosure

25th February 2022Josephine BesticBotswana

As a Botswana NGO, Children in the Wilderness (CITW) plays an important role in raising awareness for environmental issues and promoting sustainable development. In 2021, CITW and the FNBB Foundation collaborated to work with Parakarungu Primary School to develop an environmental education, life- and leadership skills programme for the children and teachers. The CITW Botswana...

Feb

Eye Care, We Care!

17th February 2022Josephine BesticZimbabwe

As of last week, all of the staff in the Wilderness Victoria Falls office are looking into the future with much clearer vision! We at CITW set up our eye-testing and screening station in the garden of the Victoria Falls office and offered all staff at Wilderness the opportunity to get their eyes tested. The...

Feb

CITW Botswana – Beetsha Primary School Poultry Project Gets Underway

10th February 2022Josephine BesticBotswana

In 2018 the Haagvalken family were guests of Wilderness Vumbura Plains, where they had the opportunity to engage with the nearby community. Beetsha Primary was one of the schools they visited, and the family was inspired to support the school through our Children in the Wilderness programme. Accordingly, they made a donation for the construction...

Feb

Where are they Now? Kaone Cane Samakata

10th February 2022Josephine BesticBotswana

It’s always wonderfully affirming to hear from former Eco-Club members. Cane is an uplifting example of a child that was on the CITW programme throughout primary school – excelling to the point of being chosen to attend the Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC) bridging course. He notes that “after the SAWC course I obtained my...

Feb

Celebrate the Rains, Reap the Grains

1st February 2022Josephine BesticZimbabwe

The annual rains have arrived in full force in the usually drought-ridden area of Tsholotsho, in, Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland, bringing much-needed water for newly planted fields, and filling the natural waterholes and dams. With this area being notoriously difficult to farm, due to poor soil, extreme temperatures and an erratic rainfall pattern, it has provided relief...

Jan

CITW Supports Feeding Programme at Bisate Primary School

31st January 2022Josephine BesticRwanda

Since the start of the school year in October 2021, Bisate Primary School has been providing meals to all of the 1 500 learners enrolled at the school. An initiative from the Rwandan government to motivate learners to attend school and not skip any school days, the feeding programme has proved to be a big...

Jan

Zambezi Schoolbook Project – A Short History

25th January 2022Josephine BesticZimbabwe

Cherished CITW supporters, Claude and Barbara Mayfield of the Zambezi Schoolbook Project, have been instrumental in improving literacy in rural Zimbabwe, a feat of exceptional fundraising, organisational and logistical skills. Since the inception of our partnership, and their first container of reading material was shipped from Atlanta in the USA in 2014, tens of thousands...

Jan

Update from CITW at Gishwati Forest – January 2022

24th January 2022Josephine BesticNews, Rwanda

On this UNESCO International Day of Education, we couldn’t be more excited to share CITW Rwanda’s latest successes at Gisunzu Primary School, situated in the community neighbouring Gishwati-Mukura National Park in the north-west of the country. We are humbled by the generosity of Wilderness Safaris Bisate and Magashi guests, whose kind donations made these improvements...

Dec

School Supplies for Rwanda Scholarship Recipients

21st December 2021Josephine BesticRwanda

CITW Rwanda is proud to have facilitated 110 scholarships for learners at Bisate Secondary School, Rwabirharamba Secondary School outside Akagera National Park and Kinihira Secondary School close to Gishwati Forest, effective from the beginning of the current school year. Aline with the children at Rwabirharamba Secondary School The funding was provided by Wilderness Safaris Bisate...

Dec

US Embassy, CITW Botswana Empower Girls in the Delta Through Conservation Science Camp

21st December 2021Josephine BesticBotswana

During the first week of December, 30 girls from Seronga’s Ngambao Junior Secondary School underwent yet another exciting and empowering training at the second Conservation Science Camp for Girls in Rural Areas in Eretsha. The camp, which is supported by the US Embassy and implemented by Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Botswana, is intended to...

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