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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...

Nov

Wilderness Celebrates Members Club Support of CITW Botswana

21st November 2023Josephine BesticBotswana

Okavango Wilderness Safaris gathered stakeholders from its exclusive Botswana Members Club programme at The Patio Restaurant in Gaborone, to express its heartfelt gratitude for the Members’ ongoing support, and the positive impact they enable. The Wilderness Members Club, inaugurated in 2012 and launched in Botswana in 2017, invites Southern African residents to join the Wilderness...

Aug

CITW Botswana – Sankoyo Primary School Camel Encounter

23rd August 2023Josephine BesticBotswana

Through its programme and activities, Children in the Wilderness Botswana (CITW) aims to increase children’s awareness, bridge cultural divides, broaden horizons, build confidence, provide opportunities for new friendships and positive life choices, and open up career opportunities. On the 18th of August 2023, the CITW team, along with Wilderness Botswana Guide Manager & Trainer Cilas...

Aug

Shashe Primary School Waste Management Project

11th August 2023Josephine BesticBotswana

Waste is one of the greatest concerns around the globe. With the rate of consumables rising, the Botswana Government has recognised the need to find ways to mitigate the rising issue of littering – both in towns and villages. In 2021 a levy on plastic was introduced as a way of discouraging buying of plastic...

Jul

Tree Identification Lesson at Gudigwa Primary School, Okavango Panhandle

12th July 2023Josephine BesticBotswana

Gudigwa Primary School’s Environmental Eco-Club Co-ordinators, together with the Eco-Club members and a community member, embarked on a tree identification lesson in school on the 06th of July 2023. The main purpose of the lesson was to introduce the Eco-Club members to the tree species in their school grounds, to know and understand, and learn...

Jun

CITW Botswana attends World Environment Day 2023 Celebrations in Maun

13th June 2023Josephine BesticBotswana

Established by the United Nations (UN) in Stockholm, Sweden in 1972, World Environment Day is an annual event that is internationally celebrated on 05 June to encourage environmental protection and natural resources conservation. The Botswana Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET), through the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), hosted a national event on 9 June...

Apr

Sankuyo Primary School Leaving Examinations – 2022 Results Celebration

5th April 2023Josephine BesticBotswana

Children in the Wilderness (CITW) and Wilderness Botswana take enormous pride in excellence, not only when it comes to the business, but also in their affiliated stakeholders. The 2022 Primary School Leaving Examinations (PSLE) results saw Sankuyo Primary School included among the schools in Botswana which performed exceptionally well. In fact, in the North-West District,...

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