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Apr

Book donations for Kwamqobela Primary School, South Africa

6th April 2017Josephine BesticNews

This is just a sampling of the generous book donations from Wilderness Safaris staff as well as children of Parkview Senior School in Johannesburg for our upcoming revamp of Kwamqobela Primary School library near Rocktail. This wonderful collection of books includes both children and adult reading material.

Apr

Painting of Kafulafula Primary School, Malawi

5th April 2017Josephine BesticNews

Kafulafula Primary School in Malawi has a new lease on life with a fresh lick of paint. Janet Wilkinson (South African Children in the Wilderness Programme Coordinator) organised the donation of paint to the school. According to the assistant head teacher, the committee of the school, the principal and teachers are very happy with the...

Mar

Best Eco-Gardening prize for 2016 awarded to Ziga Primary School, Zimbabwe

31st March 2017Josephine BesticNews

In 2012, Children in the Wilderness Zimbabwe supplied heavy duty gardening tools, fruit trees and vegetable seed to assist with start-up vegetable gardens and orchard projects at certain schools participating in Children and the Wilderness Eco-Clubs in the Tsholotsho District. Since then, the schools have been competing year after year for the Best Eco-Gardening Prize....

Mar

Canoeing 125 miles for Children in the Wilderness

29th March 2017Josephine BesticNews

Emma Badger (18) and Emma Bryant (18) have chosen to paddle 125 miles – for us! This legendary race has been going since 1948, and is known as the ‘Everest of canoeing’. These two motivated young ladies, who are both currently completing their A levels at Lord Wandsworth College in Hampshire, have chosen to...

Mar

Support our Scholars – Children in the Wilderness Scholarship Programme

28th March 2017Josephine BesticNews

Mar

CAMP HWANGE CHILDRENS CAMP 2017, ZIMBABWE

24th March 2017Josephine BesticNews

At the beginning of each year, Children in the Wilderness lead a children’s camp hosted at Camp Hwange in the Sinamatella area of Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. The four day, three night camp is held during the quieter rainy season and is aimed at underprivileged children from rural schools. These overnight camps are a...

Mar

World Water Day – Clean Water for rural Schools and Communities in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe

22nd March 2017Josephine BesticNews

Most of us take for granted that we have a regular supply of clean water. We turn on our taps and have clean drinking water available to us. For the remote, drought ridden rural communities of Matabeleland North in Zimbabwe, access to clean water is considered a luxury. An average day for women and young...

Mar

CITW and Pack for a Purpose give soccer kit, South Africa

16th March 2017Josephine BesticNews

Three years back Vumi Dlakavu (who works in our Johannesburg office) started a casual morning soccer practice in Vosloorus for youngsters aged seven through 15. The sessions became a regular event and the boys became quite disciplined about attending the sessions. Last year Vumi decided to form a youngsters’ soccer team: “We started participating in...

Mar

Hearing tests with communities in Rocktail Bay, South Africa

13th March 2017Josephine BesticNews

Earlier this week, Rocktail General Manager Natalie Gouws has been spending time in the local community around camp, visiting two villages, KwaMqobela and KwaMpukane. She picks up the story: “We had a team of seven people come to Rocktail to do hearing tests and to see who might need hearing aids. In total we saw about...

Mar

Children in the Wilderness – Monitoring and Evaluation Workshop

10th March 2017Josephine BesticNews

The Children in the Wilderness Team attended a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) course in Cape Town, from the 20th to 24th February 2017. The course was coordinated by the International Institute for Local Development (http://www.iildev.org/), and was run by Dr. Richard Tobin from the USA. Richard is a world renowned expert in the field,...

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