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Sep

CITW Rwanda 2025 Eco-Mentor Training

19th September 2025Aline UmutoniRwanda

In late August, Children in the Wilderness Rwanda (CITW) brought together 23 YES and Eco-Club teachers (Eco-Mentors) from our eight partner schools for a three-day training workshop. Local teachers made their way to Musanze, Rwanda’s third-largest city and the gateway to the famed Volcanoes National Park, from both Bisate and Rushubi primary and secondary schools...

Aug

CITW Rwanda Conservation Camp 2025

29th August 2025Aline UmutoniRwanda

One hundred children from Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park area recently attended two Conservation Camps based at the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, as well as at Wilderness Bisate. Children in Wilderness Rwanda, in partnership with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund (DFGF), Muhisimbi Voice of Youth in Conservation, and Conservation Heritage –...

Aug

CITW Rwanda Celebrates its First 29 High School Scholarship Graduates

5th August 2025Aline UmutoniRwanda

Wilderness Rwanda and Children in the Wilderness (CITW) and are extremely proud to celebrate the first 29 of our CITW scholarship members who finished high school in the 2024-25 academic school year! To mark the occasion, on July 28, 2025 we took them on an educational tour to Gishwati-Mukura National Park, as well as the...

Jul

CITW Rwanda supports renovations at Gisunzu Primary School

23rd July 2025Josephine BesticRwanda

In the community around Rwanda’s Gishwati-Mukura National Park area in the country’s Western Province, Wilderness and Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Rwanda have partnered with Gisunzu Primary School. After a recent request from the school leaders and Gishwati community committee, we were proud to support the school with its renovation of the special girls’ room,...

Jul

CITW Rwanda Field Trip to Gishwati-Mukura National Park

7th July 2025Josephine BesticRwanda

Wilderness Rwanda and Children in the Wilderness (CITW), in partnership with the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) and Forest of Hope Association (FHA), organised a visit to Gishwati-Mukura National Park on the 14th of June 2025 for the CITW scholarship students who are in grade S3 at Kinihira Secondary School in the Gishwati community. The children...

May

CITW Rwanda Supports Construction of New Volleyball Court for Akayange Primary School

12th May 2025Josephine BesticRwanda

Thanks to generous guest donations, Wilderness and Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Rwanda are proud to have supported Akayange Primary School with the construction of a volleyball court. Wilderness and CITW’s partnership with the school was forged in 2019, after the opening of Wilderness Magashi in Akagera National Park. Akayange is the closest school to...

Apr

Wilderness Rwanda and CITW Facilitate Volleyball Court at Kinihira Secondary School

25th April 2025Josephine BesticRwanda

Children in the Wilderness Rwanda (CITW) is excited to share with you the news of a brand-new volleyball court installation at Kinihira Secondary School, located in the Gishwati community just outside Gishwati-Mukura National Park. Thanks to generous donations from guests at our Wilderness camps in Rwanda, CITW has been able to support the school with...

Apr

CITW Rwanda provides new school uniforms for Ejo Heza Nursery School

23rd April 2025Josephine BesticRwanda

Wilderness and Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Rwanda are proud to have supported the tots who attend Ejo Heza Nursery School in Nyarusizi village with school uniforms valued at USD 487.00. The little school is the closest to Wilderness Bisate Reserve and Wilderness Bisate, in the country’s Volcanoes National Park area. The school is very...

Oct

Wilderness Bisate and the Tuzamurane Co-operative – Empowering Bisate Communities

28th October 2024Josephine BesticRwanda

The Tuzamurane Co-operative was established in 2016 when Wilderness approached the collective Bisate villagers to purchase parcels of their agricultural land to develop Wilderness Bisate, which opened for guests in June 2017. The award-winning lodge has since expanded, with the exciting additions of Bisate Kwanda Day Lounge in 2021 and the recently opened Wilderness Bisate...

Oct

Separate bathroom for girls at Rwabiharamba Secondary School

23rd October 2024Josephine BesticRwanda

Rwabiharamba School is situated in Akayange Village just outside of Rwanda’s Akagera National Park, where Wilderness Magashi is located. Wilderness Rwanda and Children in the Wilderness (CITW) partnered with this school via the Magashi Community Committee in 2020, and every week the school facilitates the CITW Youth Environmental Stewardship (YES) Club for the students, of...

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