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Dec

CITW Botswana Annual Camp – Mokolodi Nature Reserve

17th December 2025Gabaineele ModirapulaBotswana

Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Botswana, in partnership with Botswana Insurance Holdings Limited Trust (BIHL) and Mokolodi Nature Reserve, hosted its 2025 annual camp from 1–3 December 2025. The aim of the camp was to enhance educational and environmental awareness among Eco-Club members at Tshwaragano Primary School in Gaborone. The initiative leverages the unique strengths...

Oct

CITW Zambezi’s 2025 Annual Camps

7th October 2025Courtney PritchardZambia, Zimbabwe

This year, Children in the Wilderness Zambezi hosted three camps – at Wilderness Davison’s in Hwange, Wilderness Ruckomechi in Mana Pools, and Wilderness Toka Leya in Livingstone. Across the three camps, we welcomed 84 Eco Club students and 12 teachers from rural schools in Zimbabwe and Zambia – 28 students and four teachers at each...

Sep

CITW Kenya August 2025 Update

19th September 2025Sharon MuthoniKenya

From transformative guest donations and inspiring school visits to celebrating World Ranger, World Lion and World Elephant days, our Eco-Club activities continued throughout August, despite it being the end of the school year. In between, our young members have rested and are recharged in time for the new academic year at the beginning of September....

Jul

Stories of Change: Kitso Paris Mpinang

8th July 2025Josephine BesticBotswana, News

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...

Aug

Eco-Mentor Refresher for CITW Annual Camp

26th August 2024Kelly BaitshokiBotswana

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...

May

CITW Zambezi annual camp at Wilderness Ruckomechi

8th May 2024Courtney PritchardZimbabwe

An unforgettable CITW Zambezi annual Eco-Club camp was held for children from the schools around Mana Pools National Park in early April 2024. Twenty-four students and four teachers from four partner primary schools around the national park spent four days of fun and learning at magical Wilderness Ruckomechi on the banks of the Lower Zambezi...

Apr

CITW Zambezi annual camp at Wilderness Toka Leya

8th April 2024Josephine BesticZambia

CITW Zambezi’s annual Eco-Club camp was held at Wilderness Toka Leya in mid-March. Twenty-eight students and four children from seven partner primary schools around Livingstone spent four days of fun and learning at this magical camp on the banks of the Zambezi River. Themed around biodiversity, in addition to understanding the hospitality industry, through educational...

Nov

Remembering the Launch of CITW Zambia

25th November 2021Josephine Bestic20th Anniversary, Zambia

Netherlands-born Wilderness Safaris Rwanda Operations Manager & CITW Programme Coordinator, Ingrid Baas, and her husband Rob (WS Rwanda MD), share a passion for travel. One of the first countries they travelled to in Africa was Zambia, and after quickly falling in love with the country, their bush hospitality careers started in South Luangwa, after which...

Nov

A Short History of CITW Malawi – 2003 to 2021

25th November 2021Josephine Bestic20th Anniversary, Malawi, News

2003 – 2006 Children in the Wilderness Malawi was established in 2003. It started with a camp programme, and hosted 10 children from the SOS Village in Lilongwe. A five-night/six-day camp was held at Mvuu Camp in Liwonde National Park, in the southern region of Malawi. It was full of fun, unstructured environmental education, mainly...

Apr

Happy Campers!

21st April 2021Josephine BesticBotswana, News

Day 2 of our CITW Botswana’s Conservation Science Camp started with a morning biodiversity walk led by Rob Taylor of Wilderness Safaris Botswana’s Environmental team. The walk was intended to get everyone warmed up for the day ahead, and to nurture interest in nature for the participants. Using a net, participants were able to catch,...

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