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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...

Mar

CITW Botswana & Pack for a Purpose – 2022 Update

1st March 2022Josephine BesticBotswana

One of the most wonderful and impactful consequences of Okavango Wilderness Safaris camps hosting visitors is the receipt of much-needed and appreciated children’s supplies, donated through the Pack for a Purpose initiative. Since last year, Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Botswana has been delighted to accept stationery and toiletries from guests at Wilderness’ Botswana camps,...

Feb

CITW Botswana Refurbishes Parakarungu PS Poultry Enclosure

25th February 2022Josephine BesticBotswana

As a Botswana NGO, Children in the Wilderness (CITW) plays an important role in raising awareness for environmental issues and promoting sustainable development. In 2021, CITW and the FNBB Foundation collaborated to work with Parakarungu Primary School to develop an environmental education, life- and leadership skills programme for the children and teachers. The CITW Botswana...

Feb

CITW Botswana – Beetsha Primary School Poultry Project Gets Underway

10th February 2022Josephine BesticBotswana

In 2018 the Haagvalken family were guests of Wilderness Vumbura Plains, where they had the opportunity to engage with the nearby community. Beetsha Primary was one of the schools they visited, and the family was inspired to support the school through our Children in the Wilderness programme. Accordingly, they made a donation for the construction...

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