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Jan

Chicken Egg-Farming Start-up at Gishwati

11th January 2021Rwanda

After a request from the Gishwati community committee to Children in the Wilderness and Wilderness Safaris Rwanda, and thanks to generous donations from Wilderness Safaris’ guests, we were able to assist Gisunzu Primary School and the surrounding community with a special chicken egg-farming project at the start of this year. In the villages close to...

Dec

Solar Borehole Installed at Akayange

30th December 2020Rwanda

The last few days of 2020 have been particularly exciting for Akayange and Kayange villages, as well as Akayange Primary School. With the help of a generous donation from a Wilderness Safaris Rwanda guest, we have been able to install a solar borehole to provide water to 280 households consisting of more than 1 400...

Dec

Christmas Joy in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve

28th December 2020Botswana

The Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) COVID-Relief food drive is the hardest drive of all our Botswana outreaches – not in terms of the volume of food parcels that need to be delivered, but the sheer expanse of kilometres that need to be covered, and the extremely rough terrain to get to these remote villages....

Dec

Eco-Club Activity in Malawi

22nd December 2020Malawi

Nanthomba and Kafulafula Eco-Club Since the outbreak of the COVID-19, CITW has been engaged in creating awareness around dealing with the pandemic. The message has been put out to parents, the youth and the children. CITW children have been also making face masks, as one of the ways to minimise the chances of contracting the...

Dec

Eco-Club News from Rwanda

18th December 2020Rwanda

Great news this month for our Children in the Wilderness programme in Rwanda is that the schools are open, and the students have returned, after a closure of more than seven months due to COVID-19. This means that the 80 students at Bisate Secondary School, who are sponsored with a scholarship through generous contributions from...

Dec

Jabulani Village Hygiene Kit Distribution

18th December 2020Zimbabwe

Sixty-eight Days for Girls hygiene kits were distributed to the Jabulani community, just outside of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. This was the second distribution from recent donations from the Stanwood Camano Island Chapter Group in the USA, and Brooke Shaw in Australia. For this distribution, we chose to give the kits to women of the Jabulani...

Dec

Tree planting season is here in Malawi!

18th December 2020Malawi

Every year, towards the end of November, Chihame Eco-Club at Chintheche celebrates the beginning of tree-planting season, especially as some tree species need planting early, at the beginning of the rainy season. The club is planning to plant over 1 000 seedlings between December 2020 and March next year. The Nanthomba Tree Nursery is managed...

Dec

Lesedi Primary School Volunteers’ Food for Work

17th December 2020Zimbabwe

Six motivated volunteers at Lesedi Primary School, near Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, have each received a food pack as part of the Food for Work programme. The six volunteers have been working hard since the reopening of schools, and help to ensure that daily tasks are carried out without disruption to the school day. Tasks include...

Dec

CITW Malawi YES Clubs – Face-Mask Project

16th December 2020Malawi

With donations from Central African Wilderness Safaris (CAWS) MD Chris Badger, his wife Pam, and the Rosemary Pencil Foundation, a face-mask production project was launched at the Chihame YES Club in Chintheche. The Chihame Centre received two sewing machines as donations. At the same time, further to the south, the Nanthomba Centre in Liwonde also...

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