Botswana Archives | Children In The Wilderness

Jul

Stories of Change: Kitso Paris Mpinang

8th July 2025Josephine BesticBotswana, News

The learners we nurture on our environmental education programme are more than just children. They live on the edge of some of Earth’s most untamed places, close enough to hear a lion’s roar and sense an elephant’s rumble. As the future custodians of the truly wild, they bear a massive responsibility. Through CITW programmes and...

Apr

Wilderness Botswana & Partners Build Better Future for Eretsha Learners

24th April 2025Josephine BesticBotswana

April 2025 – Wilderness Botswana, in proud partnership with the country’s North West District Council, the Eretsha village community, and partners in the tourism industry, recently handed over new infrastructure to Eretsha Primary School – a partner school of the company’s Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Botswana programme. The handover marks the completion of a...

Aug

Eco-Mentor Refresher for CITW Annual Camp

26th August 2024Kelly BaitshokiBotswana

Children in the Wilderness Botswana (CITW) will be running two children’s annual eco-camps this year – at Wilderness Jacana & Wilderness Vumbura Plains, both in the Okavango Delta. In preparation for these camps, on the 24th of August 2024 CITW conducted an Eco-Mentor refresher course for the current Eco-Mentors – to remind them of what...

Jul

CITW Botswana & FNBB Foundation Support Parakarungu Primary School with Fruit Trees

9th July 2024Gabaineele ModirapulaBotswana

The CITW Botswana team embarked on a trip to Parakarungu Primary School in Botswana Chobe area on 2 July 2024 to meet with the schools’ Environmental Education Club members, and hand over 17 fruit trees for a new orchard. CITW Botswana and the FNBB Foundation have been supporting the school since 2021 after the signing...

Jun

Tshwaragano Primary School Vegetable Garden

14th June 2024Kelly BaitshokiBotswana

The Eco-Club at Children in the Wilderness Botswana’s urban partner school, Tshwaragano Primary School in Gaborone, recently embarked on a vegetable garden project. Focusing on the Educate and Empower pillars of Wilderness’ impact strategy, the objective of the garden is to help learners to understand the process of growing crops from planting to harvest,...

Jun

Celebrating World Environment Day at Shashe Primary School, Maun

7th June 2024Kelly BaitshokiBotswana

The Eco-Club at Shashe Primary School, Wilderness Botswana’s Children in the Wilderness (CITW) partner school in Maun, celebrated the World Environmental Day by discussing the topic of trees. The world’s ecosystems are under threat, with unsustainable patterns of manufacturing and consumption reducing nature and causing biodiversity loss over the years, due to pollution and waste,...

Jun

CITW Botswana Facilitates Shashe Primary School Vegetable Garden

4th June 2024Josephine BesticBotswana

In May 2024, Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Botswana and Shashe Primary School in Maun embarked on a transformative new vegetable garden project. The team started immediately after the school’s opening on 14 May, by putting up a fence around the school garden to keep unwanted visitors (mainly goats and chickens) out of the plants....

Mar

Gunotsoga Primary School Hosts CITW Botswana & Wilderness Guests

12th March 2024Kelly BaitshokiBotswana

On 9 March 2024, Kelly and Gaba from Children in the Wilderness Botswana (CITW), together with Wilderness Botswana Community Liaison Officer, Sam Kavindama, embarked on a trip to Gunotsoga Primary School to meet the Altmans, a group of eight Wilderness guests. The guests had expressed an interest in visiting the school, and flew into Gunotsoga...

Feb

Wilderness Impact Workshop – Victoria Falls

27th February 2024Josephine BesticBotswana, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

From 18-21February, a number of familiar faces from our Wilderness family arrived in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, where all our regions were represented during two power days at our 2024 Impact workshop. The last comparable event took place eight years ago, underlining the significance of this event. Gathering an impressive 32 staff, it was great to...

Dec

CITW Botswana Annual Camp at Baobab 1

12th December 2023Josephine BesticBotswana

Every year Okavango Wilderness Safaris closes a camp in Botswana for a few days to host a Children in the Wilderness (CITW) year-end camp. These camps comprise a three-day conservation experience aimed at educating, inspiring and creating leaders who will hopefully be inspired to become the future custodians of Botswana’s pristine wild areas. This year’s...

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