Read this report written by Isabel Wolf-Gillespie (CITW Bobirwa Eco Club Coordinator). Isabel organised and facilitated a visit from the Good Hope Group in June. This experience was about social volunteering and assisting in the Lentswe Le Moriti and Mathathane Schools and Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Eco-Clubs, as well as an opportunity to explore...Read More
Wilderness Safaris hosted an intimate engagement to celebrate its exclusive Members Club in Francistown on Tuesday, 25 June 2019. Held at Marang Hotel, the event welcomed potential members to learn more about the programme and Children in the Wilderness (CITW), Wilderness Safaris’ non-profit partner and the beneficiary of all membership joining fees. Guests were also...Read More
In a joint collaboration with 4x4outfar, Global Vision 2020 and explore4knowledge, Wilderness Safaris played a key role in a humanitarian project that brought eye screening to more than 2 500 children in eight Children in the Wilderness (CITW) affiliated schools. The company supported the project with funding, personnel and lodgings as the team traversed northern Botswana...Read More
Meet the Children in the Wilderness team! Last week we gathered at the Rivonia offices we share withWilderness Safaris for our annual regional workshop. Three super energising days later saw the regional coordinators heading back to their respective countries to implement the life-changing plans and projects they finalised. The Children in the Wilderness Team Back L...Read More
Motlhabaneng Primary School, two of the schools in the Molema Cluster of our Bobirwa Region in Botswana, celebrated Mother Earth Day at the end of March. Mentors decided to focus the celebrations on the issue of litter. As all of our lessons do, the day started with a fun energiser to get the children excited...Read More
In Bobirwa sub-district in Botswana, Children in the Wilderness works with six schools. The schools are split into two clusters – the Masego and Molema clusters. The Masego cluster is made up of our three newest schools: Gobojango, Mabolwe and Semolale. Have a look at what the Masego Cluster has been up to over the...Read More
Bamba Bagwasi, our Eco-Club Coordinator for Semolale Primary School in the Tuli area of Botswana, shared some wonderful pictures of the start of a new project which we’re getting started in our communities – the creation of ecobricks. The schools will collect plastic waste to fill empty plastic bottles, to make these bricks which will...Read More
Mathathane Primary School in the Tuli Region of Botswana, shared a few photos from lessons which they have been conducting in their weekly Eco-Clubs. Eco-Club teacher at Mathathane, Dimpho Mangogola, ran the Web of Life lesson with the children. During this lesson, the children learn about the trophic levels, and how each level is dependent...Read More
Written by Kelly Baitshoki – CITW Assistant Administrator, Botswana The Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Botswana team, accompanied by Tana and Olebogile ‘Ollie’ Porote (a Wilderness Safaris guide in the Okavango Region), visited the Sankuyo Primary School on the 15th May 2019, where the donation was distributed to all 140 children at the school. These...Read More
Children in the Wilderness (CITW), in association with Diacore Gaborone Marathon, launched an exciting Sports in the Wilderness programme in 15 of its affiliated Eco-Club schools in Botswana. In February 2019, each of the eight schools in our northern Botswana region, hosted an environmentally-themed track and field Sports Day to inspire and motivate children to...Read More
