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Jul

CITW Botswana – Let Love Lead Fundraising Initiative

11th July 2022Josephine BesticBotswana

In November last year, the Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Botswana team and Tlamelo Bothma, Okavango Wilderness Safaris’ (OWS) Office Manager, came up with ideas to encourage OWS staff to give back to CITW. The team decided to rent spaces to staff in the Maun office complex for BWP50 per person, to sell any household...

Jun

CITW Botswana Completes Beetsha Poultry Project

17th June 2022Josephine BesticBotswana

In the first week of February 2022, the Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Botswana team facilitated the launch of the Beetsha Poultry Project at the village primary school. On 20 May, the team went back to the school to deliver and install cages for the laying hens. “We can now report with great joy that...

Jun

Route Unveiled for Much-Anticipated 2022 Nedbank Tour De Tuli Mountain Bike Adventure

8th June 2022Josephine BesticBobirwa, Botswana, GMTFCA, South Africa, Zimbabwe

June 2022 – Organisers have proudly unveiled the awe-inspiring route for the exclusive 2022 Nedbank Tour de Tuli, the internationally acclaimed mountain bike tour, and one-of-a-kind wilderness adventure that traverses three countries, namely South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana. Kicking off on 19 July, the Tour serves as the primary fundraiser for Children in the Wilderness (CITW),...

Jun

Tuli Conservation Trust Follow-up Eye Testing in Bobirwa

3rd June 2022Josephine BesticBobirwa, Botswana

In June 2021, humanitarian Anton Poplett and his passionate @4x4OutFar team conducted much-needed eye-screening on 2 300 children and some adults at CITW partner schools in Botswana’s Bobirwa District. A year later, the Tuli Conservation Trust (TCT) undertook to return to the schools in late May 2022 for check-ups on the children who received eye...

Jun

CITW Botswana and the 2022 Nkashi Classic

2nd June 2022Josephine BesticBotswana, News

The Nkashi Classic is an initiative of the Botswana Wild Bird Trust (BWBT), to celebrate the mokoro, and the nkashi, which is used to propel it. This year’s event entailed a timed 1 km moroko race, featuring both Women’s, Men’s and Senior Citizens’/Veterans’ categories, with cash and spot prizes to be won. The event was held...

May

Wilderness Botswana Provides Ongoing Food Relief for Vulnerable Communities

27th May 2022Josephine BesticBotswana

Committed to its Impact vision of protecting Botswana’s wildlife, and the communities who live alongside it, in April and May 2022 Wilderness Safaris Botswana provided more than 1 100 food hampers to residents in the Okavango Community Trust (OCT) and Sankuyo Tshwaragano Management Trust villages around its private wilderness areas. While tourism is gradually recovering, the...

Apr

Shokomokwa Borehole Brings Life – and Water – to Community

29th April 2022Josephine BesticBotswana

Unusual challenges necessitate unconventional thinking, and this was very much the case in finding a simple yet effective solution to the double challenge of water scarcity and human-wildlife conflict in the remote settlement of Shokomokwa in Ngamiland. Residents fetch water from the river daily, often encountering dangerous wildlife, even lions and elephants, along the way....

Apr

Wild Vision Botswana Campaign is a Wrap

13th April 2022Josephine BesticBotswana

In late March and early April 2022, visionary humanitarian Anton Poplett and his intrepid team journeyed into Botswana to conduct eye tests on thousands of learners and teachers in Children in the Wilderness (CITW) partner – and other – schools across the Okavango Delta. In order to expand this third outreach to even more children,...

Mar

CITW Botswana Facilitates Supplies Donation to Nxaunxau Primary School Children

16th March 2022Josephine BesticBotswana

On the 7th of March 2022, the Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Botswana team headed out to Nxaunxau Primary School to meet Karin Fröhlich, Wilderness Safaris’ Germany-based sales partner, and a group of her agents, who wished to donate stationery and toiletries to the children. Nxaunxau village is located in the North-West District of Botswana,...

Mar

CITW Botswana Completes Broiler Chicken Production Facility At Parakarungu Primary School

15th March 2022Josephine BesticBotswana

As reported earlier this month, in late February 2022, the Children in the Wilderness Botswana team, along with members of the Parakarungu Primary School administration, refurbished an abandoned house on the school grounds to create a poultry enclosure, with the aim of starting a broiler chicken production facility. Ms Stoff, Environmental Education Co-ordinator for the...

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