Annual Eco-Club Camp Archives | Children In The Wilderness

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...

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...

Jul

CITW Rwanda – Conservation Camp 2022

22nd July 2022Josephine BesticRwanda

We are thrilled to advise that from Monday 25 July through Saturday 30 July. Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Rwanda will be running a conservation camp for a total of 80 P6 students. The children are all members of the Environmental Clubs at four schools in the Kinigi area: Bisate, Kabara, Rushubi and Kabwende primary...

Nov

Observations of a former Programme Manager

25th November 2021Josephine Bestic20th Anniversary, Bobirwa, Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Dear CITW friends, dear Janet In 2012 and 2013 I was allowed to lead CITW for a short time. “You only protect what you love, and you only love what you know” was the credo of the late Russel Friedman, who encouraged all Wilderness Safaris staff and partners to participate in CITW camps. Rita in...

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...

Sep

Otto Jensen: CITW Camper to Qualified Wilderness Camp Manager

15th September 2021Josephine BesticBotswana, News

Regular followers of our updates might remember our post about Otto Jensen, an inspiring young Trainee Camp Manager whose love for the wilderness was affirmed when he attended a CITW annual camp at Jacana in 2004. Today we are thrilled to share the news that he has graduated from his Lodge Management Training with flying...

Mar

Otto Thabang Jensen – From CITW Camper to CKGR Camp Manager

16th March 2021Josephine BesticBotswana

A graduate of the Children in the Wilderness eco-camp programme, Otto’s association with Wilderness Safaris began on the Jao Reserve, after being invited to attend a CITW annual camp at Jacana, where his mother was working as a Trainee Manager. But let’s start at the beginning… A “child of the Delta”, Otto was born in...

Mar

Bobirwa Cluster Eco-Camp 2017

15th March 2021Josephine BesticBobirwa, Botswana

In 2017 photographer Angelica Mills and CITW Bobirwa had the great good fortune to meet each other! Our Bobirwa Cluster annual camp at Mashatu was her first time volunteering as an Eco-Mentor, and here she shares a few wonderful memories from this watershed experience. “Your destiny is to fulfil those things upon which you focus...

Mar

Mashatu Memories – Changing Lives One Annual CITW Camp at a Time

10th March 2021Josephine BesticBobirwa, Botswana

Photographer and annual camp Eco-Mentor volunteer Angelica Mills shares some standout moments from the Bobirwa Cluster’s 2018 annual camp… “See the world through the eyes of your inner child. The eyes that sparkle in awe and amazement as they see love, magic and mystery in the most ordinary things”. – Henna Sohali

Jul

Happy Flashback to Ingrid’s 2011 CITW Zambia Annual Camp

17th July 2020Josephine BesticZambia

Now based in Rwanda as Wilderness Safaris’ Operations Manager, and CITW Programme Co-ordinator for the region, Ingrid shares some happy memories of a CITW annual camp held at Kapinga Camp in Kafue’s Busanga Plains. “The camp was supposed to take place at Shumba,” says Ing, “but due to last minute logistics we shifted it to...

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