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Mar

CITW Zambezi – Teacher Appreciation Packs for Jabulani Schools

16th March 2022Courtney PritchardZimbabwe

When it comes to education, it is often said that it is teachers who plant the seeds of knowledge within children. And once planted, these seeds then have the ability to grow spectacularly for years to come. With this in mind, CITW Zambezi is able to see and understand the crucial role that teachers play...

Mar

Jabulani Children Part of the Solution, Not the Pollution!

1st March 2022Courtney PritchardZimbabwe

Now more than ever, CITW Zambezi believes that children’s education on environmental awareness is vitally crucial in protecting and sustaining our beautiful wilderness areas. Through our Eco-Club programmes, we aim to build environmental awareness and empower students to find solutions and take constructive action on local pollution problems. This week we were so pleased to...

Feb

Tsholotsho Agri-Course for Girls

28th February 2022Josephine BesticZimbabwe

Recognising the need to offer a second chance to girls who did not do well academically at school in neighbouring communities, Wilderness Safaris has initiated a sustainable life-skills programme focusing on agriculture. Started in partnership with Blue Collar Traveller (Children in the Wilderness Zambezi’s long-term scholarship sponsors), the Agri-Course for Girls programme commenced at the...

Feb

Eye Care, We Care!

17th February 2022Josephine BesticZimbabwe

As of last week, all of the staff in the Wilderness Victoria Falls office are looking into the future with much clearer vision! We at CITW set up our eye-testing and screening station in the garden of the Victoria Falls office and offered all staff at Wilderness the opportunity to get their eyes tested. The...

Feb

Celebrate the Rains, Reap the Grains

1st February 2022Josephine BesticZimbabwe

The annual rains have arrived in full force in the usually drought-ridden area of Tsholotsho, in, Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland, bringing much-needed water for newly planted fields, and filling the natural waterholes and dams. With this area being notoriously difficult to farm, due to poor soil, extreme temperatures and an erratic rainfall pattern, it has provided relief...

Jan

Zambezi Schoolbook Project – A Short History

25th January 2022Josephine BesticZimbabwe

Cherished CITW supporters, Claude and Barbara Mayfield of the Zambezi Schoolbook Project, have been instrumental in improving literacy in rural Zimbabwe, a feat of exceptional fundraising, organisational and logistical skills. Since the inception of our partnership, and their first container of reading material was shipped from Atlanta in the USA in 2014, tens of thousands...

Dec

Farm-to-Table Ploughing Project – Tsholotsho

15th December 2021Josephine BesticNews, Zimbabwe

Wilderness Safaris Zimbabwe, in collaboration with CITW, has officially started a ‘farm to table’ programme in three villages near Hwange National Park’s southern boundary. This programme aims to provide the most vulnerable families with food security, as well as a means for Wilderness Safaris to eventually source vegetables for staff rations in camp. The headmen...

Dec

20 Years of Inspiring Positive Action

7th December 2021Josephine Bestic20th Anniversary, Bobirwa, GMTFCA, Malawi, Namibia, News, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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Dec

CITW’S 20/20 VISION: 20 HIGHLIGHTS FROM 20 YEARS

1st December 2021Josephine Bestic20th Anniversary, Bobirwa, Botswana, GMTFCA, Malawi, Namibia, News, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Youth are our future – destined to be our planet’s custodians, a role now more critical than ever. Twenty years ago Wilderness Safaris made a commitment to rural African children by founding Children in the Wilderness (CITW), our non-profit partner organisation offering life skills training, leadership development, and environmental education to children from remote villages...

Nov

Observations of a former Programme Manager

25th November 2021Josephine Bestic20th Anniversary, Bobirwa, Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Dear CITW friends, dear Janet In 2012 and 2013 I was allowed to lead CITW for a short time. “You only protect what you love, and you only love what you know” was the credo of the late Russel Friedman, who encouraged all Wilderness Safaris staff and partners to participate in CITW camps. Rita in...

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