Josephine Bestic, Author At Children In The Wilderness

Jan

Life on a CITW Annual Camp

26th January 2021Josephine BesticBobirwa, Botswana

Photographer and CITW Eco-Mentor volunteer, Angelica Mills, describes a few of the amazing moments experienced on the Bobirwa Cluster’s 2019 annual camp held at Mashatu Game Reserve. The children often arrive feeling shy and unsure of what lies ahead but after the first song, lots of hugs and high-fives, they start to bounce with excitement...

Jan

Desk Donation for Bisate Secondary School

26th January 2021Josephine BesticRwanda

Bisate Secondary School has a total of 614 students. Through generous donations from Bisate Lodge guests, Children in the Wilderness has been able to supply the school with 99 new desks. The Bisate community committee requested this support as the school was short of these desks to meet the minimum requirements. The desks were made...

Jan

2021 Nedbank Tour De Tuli Registrations Open – and Filling Fast

22nd January 2021Josephine BesticBobirwa, Botswana, GMTFCA, South Africa, Zimbabwe

We are thrilled to announce that registrations for the 2021 edition of the Nedbank Tour de Tuli are filling fast, since opening in late 2020. The Tour is a multi-day mountain bike ride, with riders experiencing unspoiled wilderness areas in the three African countries comprising the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area (GMTFCA): South Africa, Zimbabwe...

Jan

2020 Zambezi Food Programme Roundup

13th January 2021Josephine BesticZimbabwe

Thanks to many generous donors during 2020, Children in the Wilderness Zambezi has been able to distribute 2 706 food packs to those most in need. This equates to 108 tonnes of food, and has impacted approximately 13 530 people over the year, providing them with much-needed food relief at a time when so many...

Jan

Chicken Egg-Farming Start-up at Gishwati

11th January 2021Josephine BesticRwanda

After a request from the Gishwati community committee to Children in the Wilderness and Wilderness Safaris Rwanda, and thanks to generous donations from Wilderness Safaris’ guests, we were able to assist Gisunzu Primary School and the surrounding community with a special chicken egg-farming project at the start of this year. In the villages close to...

Dec

Solar Borehole Installed at Akayange

30th December 2020Josephine BesticRwanda

The last few days of 2020 have been particularly exciting for Akayange and Kayange villages, as well as Akayange Primary School. With the help of a generous donation from a Wilderness Safaris Rwanda guest, we have been able to install a solar borehole to provide water to 280 households consisting of more than 1 400...

Dec

Christmas Joy in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve

28th December 2020Josephine BesticBotswana

The Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) COVID-Relief food drive is the hardest drive of all our Botswana outreaches – not in terms of the volume of food parcels that need to be delivered, but the sheer expanse of kilometres that need to be covered, and the extremely rough terrain to get to these remote villages....

Dec

Eco-Club Activity in Malawi

22nd December 2020Josephine BesticMalawi

Nanthomba and Kafulafula Eco-Club Since the outbreak of the COVID-19, CITW has been engaged in creating awareness around dealing with the pandemic. The message has been put out to parents, the youth and the children. CITW children have been also making face masks, as one of the ways to minimise the chances of contracting the...

Dec

Eco-Club News from Rwanda

18th December 2020Josephine BesticRwanda

Great news this month for our Children in the Wilderness programme in Rwanda is that the schools are open, and the students have returned, after a closure of more than seven months due to COVID-19. This means that the 80 students at Bisate Secondary School, who are sponsored with a scholarship through generous contributions from...

Dec

Jabulani Village Hygiene Kit Distribution

18th December 2020Josephine BesticZimbabwe

Sixty-eight Days for Girls hygiene kits were distributed to the Jabulani community, just outside of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. This was the second distribution from recent donations from the Stanwood Camano Island Chapter Group in the USA, and Brooke Shaw in Australia. For this distribution, we chose to give the kits to women of the Jabulani...

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