We hosted another successful annual camp at Rocktail Camp for 6 girls and 6 boys from Vululwazi and Kwamqobela Primary Schools.  A teacher from each school also attended.  Topics covered included leadership values, teambuilding, snorkelling, and beach games. The environmental topics included the web of life/food chains, turtles and the five senses in animals.  The...Read More

Some member off two of the CITW Adult Eco-Clubs recently met and spent some time together.  Shashe Adult Eco-Club Chairperson and Vice Chairperson visited Habu Adult Eco-Club and 15 members from Habu Adult Eco-Club attended the meeting. The aim of the meeting was for the clubs to work together to improve their livelihoods and to...Read More

Children in the Wilderness (Zimbabwe and Zambia) collaborated with teacher education staff and students at the University of Newcastle, Australia to conduct a two-week study tour for Australian students to Victoria Falls in September/October 2015. The seven teacher education students visited schools in the area, ran a resource-making workshop with local teachers and collaborated with...Read More

Wilderness Safaris Johannesburg once again generously supported a Christmas party for the children at Zithulele Daycare Centre in Olivenhoutsbosch.  Names of the children are hung on the office Christmas tree and staff members buy gifts for the children.  Despite there been 92 children at the daycare centre, we still ran out of names so some...Read More

Children in the Wilderness Zimbabwe, in collaboration with Wordworks, (a non-profit organisation based in South Africa), recently held a hugely successful Early Literacy Teacher Training Workshop in Victoria Falls.  Thanks to generous donor funding from across the globe, including contributions from the Zambezi Cycle Challenge, various private individuals and corporations, 37 Early Childhood Development (ECD)...Read More

The purpose of the workshop was to train teachers to become Eco-Mentors by upgrading skills in their environmental understating so that they are able to start and run Eco-Clubs and also to enable them to better implement school and village environmental projects and initiatives. The training was also aimed at introducing the teachers to Children...Read More

CITW Zambia organized field trips to Mosi Oa Tunya National Park between 30 November 2015 and 4th December 2015.  The field trips to the park were part of CITW’s efforts to expose children to the natural heritage and provide conservation and environmental knowledge. A total of 5 schools in Livingstone participated on these field trips....Read More

In November/December 2015, CITW Zambezi Region hosted six separate camps (2 Zambian and 4 Zimbabwean), with 156 children from schools across the region including from Holy Cross, Nalituwe, Simoonga, Twabuka, Lupane, Kabulwebulwe and Mapoko Primary Schools (Zambia); Jabulani, Emfundweni, Ziga, Ngamo, Mpindo, Kapane, Jakalasi and St Mary’s Primary Schools (Zimbabwe). On arrival at the camp...Read More

Between April and November 2015 CITW cluster center Nanthomba managed to raised 20 000 different kinds of seedlings (trees).  These included: 10 000 agro-forestry tree seedlings; 3 000 fruit tree seedlings; 7 000 wood and timber tree seedlings. Eco-Club members from Nanthomba, Kavunguti, Kafulafula Primary Schools; Adult Eco-Club (Nanthomba Eco-Women) and Nanthomba YES Club members...Read More