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Mar

From CITW Camper to Changemaker: Onkeme Taolo’s Inspiring Journey

25th March 2026Kelly BaitshokiBotswana

CITW BOTSWANA | WHERE ARE THEYNOW NAME: ONKEME TAOLO CITW SCHOOL: SHASHE PRIMARY SCHOOL YEAR OF CITW CAMP: 2007 CAMP NAME: KAPOROTA CAMP My name is Onkeme Taolo, a 29-year-old man born and raised in Maun, Botswana. I attended Shashe Primary School in Maun, where I became a member of the Environmental Education Club run...

Mar

From CITW Camper to Changemaker: Kaone Monnatshipi’s Inspiring Journey

17th March 2026Kelly BaitshokiBotswana

CITW BOTSWANA | WHERE ARE THEY NOW? NAME: KAONE MONNATSHIPI CITW SCHOOL: SHASHE PRIMARY SCHOOL, BOTSWANA, 2016 During a recent search for former campers, the Children in the Wilderness Botswana team had the pleasure of reconnecting with Kaone Monnatshipi, who happily shared the story of her journey through the programme. ‘I still remember how...

Dec

CITW Botswana Annual Camp – Mokolodi Nature Reserve

17th December 2025Gabaineele ModirapulaBotswana

Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Botswana, in partnership with Botswana Insurance Holdings Limited Trust (BIHL) and Mokolodi Nature Reserve, hosted its 2025 annual camp from 1–3 December 2025. The aim of the camp was to enhance educational and environmental awareness among Eco-Club members at Tshwaragano Primary School in Gaborone. The initiative leverages the unique strengths...

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....

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