The awarding of a milestone 200 six-year Children in the Wilderness (CITW) scholarships has made the start of Rwanda’s new secondary school year extra festive! As flag-bearer for the Educate and Empower pillars of Wilderness Rwanda’s impact strategy, CITW, is proud to announce that further to the 177 scholarship children from last year, an additional...Read More

In the first week of August 2024, Aline, our Children in the Wilderness (CITW) & Community Manager for Wilderness Rwanda, and her assistant Damascene, met with all the Eco-Mentors who are active at the two schools we partner with in the Gishwati area: Gisunzu Primary School and Kinihira Secondary School. The Eco-Mentors are responsible for...Read More

In celebration of World Water Week, Jakob Basson Combined School’s Eco-Club came together to spread awareness on ways to save water. They created educational posters and demonstrated tips for their fellow learners and teachers on how to use water more sparingly, by applying a few different practices in their day-to-day water consumption. Arguably, nowhere is...Read More

Children in the Wilderness Botswana (CITW) will be running two children’s annual eco-camps this year – at Wilderness Jacana & Wilderness Vumbura Plains, both in the Okavango Delta. In preparation for these camps, on the 24th of August 2024 CITW conducted an Eco-Mentor refresher course for the current Eco-Mentors – to remind them of what...Read More

Veroo Kaura reports from CITW Namibia that this week’s lesson was from our Eco-Club at Warmquelle Primary School in the far north-western Kunene Region of Namibia. The lesson was about the plants in the school grounds. Plants provide us with oxygen and food, and also provide us with clean air as well as support wildlife....Read More

Eighty children from eight primary schools in Rwanda’s Kinigi and Nyange sectors of the Musanze District, were hosted on two successful four-day Conservation Camps in August 2024. From Monday 5 through Thursday 8 August, and from Monday 12 to Thursday 15 August, Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Rwanda, in partnership with Conservation Heritage-Turambe, the Dian...Read More

In partnership with Start a Library Trust, Governors’ Camp Collection and CITW Kenya were proud to engage children across the country in attempting to break the world record for the Most People Reading Aloud from the same text at the same time in multiple locations.   National Read Aloud Event at the TAFA Community Center –...Read More

Doctor Tipay, CITW & Community Project Co-ordinator for Wilderness Tanzania, recently hosted volunteers, Beverly and Steven, who spent a week in Karatu and Mto wa Mbu with Children in the Wilderness. Their experience was nothing short of transformative. From the moment they arrived, they were embraced by the warmth and curiosity of the local community,...Read More

Each month, Governors’ Camp Collection and CITW Kenya sponsor the provision of uji (finger-millet porridge) to between 140 and 180 TAFA community children. Helping to ration out cups of uji – photo credit Jess Savage Most of these children come from humble backgrounds, where a meal each day is not something they can count on. Guests are...Read More