Botswana

Children in the Wilderness

Children in the Wilderness has been operating in Botswana since the inception of our programme in 2001. CITW Botswana runs Eco-Clubs in the north of the country around the Okavango Delta, the Chobe area, and Maun. We also have an urban club at a school in Gaborone: Tshwaragano Primary School.

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Botswana

NEWS

8th July 2025
Stories of Change: Kitso Paris Mpinang
The learners we nurture on our environmental education programme are more than just children. They live on the edge of some of Earth’s most untamed places, close enough to hear a lion’s roar and sense an elephant’s rumble. As the future custodians of the truly wild, they bear a massive responsibility. Through CITW programmes and...
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Josephine BesticBotswana, News
24th April 2025
Wilderness Botswana & Partners Build Better Future for Eretsha Learners
April 2025 – Wilderness Botswana, in proud partnership with the country’s North West District Council, the Eretsha village community, and partners in the tourism industry, recently handed over new infrastructure to Eretsha Primary School – a partner school of the company’s Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Botswana programme. The handover marks the completion of a...
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Josephine BesticBotswana
26th August 2024
Eco-Mentor Refresher for CITW Annual Camp
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...
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Kelly BaitshokiBotswana
9th July 2024
CITW Botswana & FNBB Foundation Support Parakarungu Primary School with Fruit Trees
The CITW Botswana team embarked on a trip to Parakarungu Primary School in Botswana Chobe area on 2 July 2024 to meet with the schools’ Environmental Education Club members, and hand over 17 fruit trees for a new orchard. CITW Botswana and the FNBB Foundation have been supporting the school since 2021 after the signing...
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Gabaineele ModirapulaBotswana
14th June 2024
Tshwaragano Primary School Vegetable Garden
The Eco-Club at Children in the Wilderness Botswana’s urban partner school, Tshwaragano Primary School in Gaborone, recently embarked on a vegetable garden project. Focusing on the Educate and Empower pillars of Wilderness’ impact strategy, the objective of the garden is to help learners to understand the process of growing crops from planting to harvest,...
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Kelly BaitshokiBotswana
7th June 2024
Celebrating World Environment Day at Shashe Primary School, Maun
The Eco-Club at Shashe Primary School, Wilderness Botswana’s Children in the Wilderness (CITW) partner school in Maun, celebrated the World Environmental Day by discussing the topic of trees. The world’s ecosystems are under threat, with unsustainable patterns of manufacturing and consumption reducing nature and causing biodiversity loss over the years, due to pollution and waste,...
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Kelly BaitshokiBotswana
4th June 2024
CITW Botswana Facilitates Shashe Primary School Vegetable Garden
In May 2024, Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Botswana and Shashe Primary School in Maun embarked on a transformative new vegetable garden project. The team started immediately after the school’s opening on 14 May, by putting up a fence around the school garden to keep unwanted visitors (mainly goats and chickens) out of the plants....
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Josephine BesticBotswana
12th March 2024
Gunotsoga Primary School Hosts CITW Botswana & Wilderness Guests
On 9 March 2024, Kelly and Gaba from Children in the Wilderness Botswana (CITW), together with Wilderness Botswana Community Liaison Officer, Sam Kavindama, embarked on a trip to Gunotsoga Primary School to meet the Altmans, a group of eight Wilderness guests. The guests had expressed an interest in visiting the school, and flew into Gunotsoga...
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Kelly BaitshokiBotswana
27th February 2024
Wilderness Impact Workshop – Victoria Falls
From 18-21February, a number of familiar faces from our Wilderness family arrived in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, where all our regions were represented during two power days at our 2024 Impact workshop. The last comparable event took place eight years ago, underlining the significance of this event. Gathering an impressive 32 staff, it was great to...
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Josephine BesticBotswana, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
12th December 2023
CITW Botswana Annual Camp at Baobab 1
Every year Okavango Wilderness Safaris closes a camp in Botswana for a few days to host a Children in the Wilderness (CITW) year-end camp. These camps comprise a three-day conservation experience aimed at educating, inspiring and creating leaders who will hopefully be inspired to become the future custodians of Botswana’s pristine wild areas. This year’s...
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Josephine BesticBotswana
21st November 2023
Wilderness Celebrates Members Club Support of CITW Botswana
Okavango Wilderness Safaris gathered stakeholders from its exclusive Botswana Members Club programme at The Patio Restaurant in Gaborone, to express its heartfelt gratitude for the Members’ ongoing support, and the positive impact they enable. The Wilderness Members Club, inaugurated in 2012 and launched in Botswana in 2017, invites Southern African residents to join the Wilderness...
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Josephine BesticBotswana
23rd August 2023
CITW Botswana – Sankoyo Primary School Camel Encounter
Through its programme and activities, Children in the Wilderness Botswana (CITW) aims to increase children’s awareness, bridge cultural divides, broaden horizons, build confidence, provide opportunities for new friendships and positive life choices, and open up career opportunities. On the 18th of August 2023, the CITW team, along with Wilderness Botswana Guide Manager & Trainer Cilas...
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Josephine BesticBotswana
11th August 2023
Shashe Primary School Waste Management Project
Waste is one of the greatest concerns around the globe. With the rate of consumables rising, the Botswana Government has recognised the need to find ways to mitigate the rising issue of littering – both in towns and villages. In 2021 a levy on plastic was introduced as a way of discouraging buying of plastic...
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Josephine BesticBotswana
12th July 2023
Tree Identification Lesson at Gudigwa Primary School, Okavango Panhandle
Gudigwa Primary School’s Environmental Eco-Club Co-ordinators, together with the Eco-Club members and a community member, embarked on a tree identification lesson in school on the 06th of July 2023. The main purpose of the lesson was to introduce the Eco-Club members to the tree species in their school grounds, to know and understand, and learn...
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Josephine BesticBotswana
13th June 2023
CITW Botswana attends World Environment Day 2023 Celebrations in Maun
Established by the United Nations (UN) in Stockholm, Sweden in 1972, World Environment Day is an annual event that is internationally celebrated on 05 June to encourage environmental protection and natural resources conservation. The Botswana Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET), through the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), hosted a national event on 9 June...
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Josephine BesticBotswana