Josephine Bestic, Author At Children In The Wilderness

Mar

Otto Thabang Jensen – From CITW Camper to CKGR Camp Manager

16th March 2021Josephine BesticBotswana

A graduate of the Children in the Wilderness eco-camp programme, Otto’s association with Wilderness Safaris began on the Jao Reserve, after being invited to attend a CITW annual camp at Jacana, where his mother was working as a Trainee Manager. But let’s start at the beginning… A “child of the Delta”, Otto was born in...

Mar

Bobirwa Cluster Eco-Camp 2017

15th March 2021Josephine BesticBobirwa, Botswana

In 2017 photographer Angelica Mills and CITW Bobirwa had the great good fortune to meet each other! Our Bobirwa Cluster annual camp at Mashatu was her first time volunteering as an Eco-Mentor, and here she shares a few wonderful memories from this watershed experience. “Your destiny is to fulfil those things upon which you focus...

Mar

Wilderness Safaris and CITW Rwanda Provide Ongoing Support to Gishwati Community

11th March 2021Josephine BesticRwanda

Children in the Wilderness and Wilderness Safaris Rwanda’s Conservation Heroes support for the Gishwati communities resumed this month, with another distribution of food and essentials parcels to the most disadvantaged families in the area. This COVID-19 relief campaign started in Rwanda in April 2020, and continued for four months, initially assisting the five villages surrounding...

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...

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