Josephine Bestic, Author At Children In The Wilderness

Mar

Mashatu Memories – Changing Lives One Annual CITW Camp at a Time

10th March 2021Josephine BesticBobirwa, Botswana

Photographer and annual camp Eco-Mentor volunteer Angelica Mills shares some standout moments from the Bobirwa Cluster’s 2018 annual camp… “See the world through the eyes of your inner child. The eyes that sparkle in awe and amazement as they see love, magic and mystery in the most ordinary things”. – Henna Sohali

Mar

The Tshabolisa Community Development Project, Zimbabwe

9th March 2021Josephine BesticNews, Zimbabwe

Exciting things are happening in the Plumtree region, located to the south-east of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park. Thanks to generous funding from Edward Allen Bell, ‘The Tshabolisa Project’ is coming along in leaps and bounds. This area has been extremely marginalised over the years, and human-wildlife conflict and overgrazing have had devastating effects on the...

Mar

Life-Changing Solar Pump Donation to Otjinungua Mobile School

3rd March 2021Josephine BesticNamibia, News

“We are thrilled to report on the donation of a solar water pump to Otjinungua Mobile School in the far northern Marienfluss Conservancy! This life-changing gift from Bank Windhoek is valued at NAD60 000″, notes Namibia CITW and Community Co-ordinator, Agnes Tjirare. Access to water at the school now makes it possible to implement a...

Feb

Twabuka Primary School’s New Pre-School Classroom Block

24th February 2021Josephine BesticZambia

We are proud to announce that a new pre-school double-classroom block at Twabuka Primary School in Zambia is now complete. This came just in time for the new school year which started at the beginning of the month. With grateful thanks to Olivia Kearns, who, for her 16th birthday, asked all her guests to donate...

Feb

Essential Supplies Donation for Akayange Primary School

17th February 2021Josephine BesticRwanda

A US family who stayed at Wilderness Safaris Magashi over Christmas 2020 decided that instead of having presents for themselves under the Magashi Christmas tree, they would like to donate backpacks full of school supplies to Akayange Primary School. Could Children in the Wilderness help them to organise this? Yes of course, with pleasure! The...

Feb

Water for Sinde Village, Zambia

15th February 2021Josephine BesticZambia

Thanks to Well Deserved, over 200 people in the community of Sinde in southern Zambia, have been positively impacted by improvements to their water accessibility. The borehole in the village of Katiba has been converted from a hand pump to a solar array, while another borehole has been drilled and a solar array installed in...

Feb

Nanthomba Zone YES and Eco-Club Activities – January 2021

2nd February 2021Josephine BesticMalawi

After a recent generous donation, CITW Malawi’s Symon Chibaka was able to organise a series of workshops for YES and Eco-Club children to learn more about COVID-19… what it is, how to protect themselves and their families from it, and through diet, how to build strong immune systems. Learning About COVID-19 Mr Nyirenda, a Health...

Feb

Himba Food Security at Otjondunda village in Kunene Region

2nd February 2021Josephine BesticNamibia

In the face of the deprivation and loss of earnings caused by the pandemic, in Namibia many Himba families have had to expand their home food production, and use traditional methods for food storage. They have also reverted to traditional medicine for healing. Girls milk goats for the younger children’s daily supply of thick milk...

Feb

CITW Rwanda Reforestation Project at Bisate Schools

1st February 2021Josephine BesticRwanda

After successfully planting trees at Gisunzu Primary School, close to Gishwati Forest, last week CITW Rwanda concentrated its reforestation focus on Bisate Primary and Secondary schools. At the primary school, teachers and learners from our CITW Eco-Club planted a total of 65 trees, while at the secondary school students from the CITW YES Club (who...

Jan

Donation of Trees for Gisunzu Primary School, Gishwati

26th January 2021Josephine BesticRwanda

On Friday afternoon all 64 CITW Eco-Club learners and their six teachers from the Gisunzu Primary School, near Gishwati-Mukura National Park, had the opportunity to plant an indigenous tree, kindly donated by the agronomists at Bisate Lodge. The trees were planted on the school grounds, and all the children and teachers have promised to look...

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