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Apr

When guests explore, our students learn more!

14th April 2022Courtney PritchardZimbabwe

The negative impact of COVID 19 on students throughout Zimbabwe cannot be underestimated, with the majority losing two full years of learning, and many children’s reading and writing abilities in our area at an all-time low. Due to this, literacy is at the forefront of most of the CITW Zambezi team’s projects this year –...

Apr

CITW Zambezi Teacher Literacy Workshop

8th April 2022Courtney PritchardZambia, Zimbabwe

The importance of children’s early literacy development cannot be overstated, with a child’s success in school and later in life, to a great extent, dependent on their ability to read and write. Early literacy intervention has been at the forefront of the Children in the Wilderness Zambezi teams’ minds this year, mainly due to the...

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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