To Jabulani, Lesedi, St Mary’s, and Dinde we go, With two tonnes of Mighty Meal porridge in tow. Feeding almost 2 000 children for the next few weeks, Some of the pressure on parents is released. Designed to help students last through the day, A bowl of Mighty Meal each morning will keep hunger at...Read More
The new classroom block at Lesedi Primary School, near Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, is now complete thanks to the Grand Circle Foundation (GCF). The final materials for the completion of the building were delivered towards the end of 2020. Due to school holidays in December and then a further lockdown in January this year, work...Read More
With grateful thanks to Grand Circle Foundation (GCF), a solar borehole has just been completed in Lupinyu Village. Located approximately 20 kilometres from Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, this additional water source for the community directly benefits over 320 people, by providing a source of water closer to where they live, and alleviating pressure on the...Read More
We are profoundly sad to share the news of a great loss to our Wilderness Safaris family. Ron Goatley, our Zimbabwe Managing Director, passed away on Sunday after a long, very brave battle with cancer. Our thoughts are with his wife, Sue – who you will know for her own tireless work with Children in...Read More
There’s a new kid on the block! Or rather, a new buck of a superior specimen who has just arrived, and forms the centre of a new goat project in Jabulani Village. After several challenges due to COVID-19 and the lockdown, the community group was finally established, and a two-year-old buck, since named Jack, was...Read More
Children in the Wilderness and Wilderness Safaris Rwanda’s Conservation Heroes support for the Gishwati communities resumed this month, with another distribution of food and essentials parcels to the most disadvantaged families in the area. This COVID-19 relief campaign started in Rwanda in April 2020, and continued for four months, initially assisting the five villages surrounding...Read More
Exciting things are happening in the Plumtree region, located to the south-east of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park. Thanks to generous funding from Edward Allen Bell, ‘The Tshabolisa Project’ is coming along in leaps and bounds. This area has been extremely marginalised over the years, and human-wildlife conflict and overgrazing have had devastating effects on the...Read More
“We are thrilled to report on the donation of a solar water pump to Otjinungua Mobile School in the far northern Marienfluss Conservancy! This life-changing gift from Bank Windhoek is valued at NAD60 000″, notes Namibia CITW and Community Co-ordinator, Agnes Tjirare. Access to water at the school now makes it possible to implement a...Read More
We are proud to announce that a new pre-school double-classroom block at Twabuka Primary School in Zambia is now complete. This came just in time for the new school year which started at the beginning of the month. With grateful thanks to Olivia Kearns, who, for her 16th birthday, asked all her guests to donate...Read More
Thanks to Well Deserved, over 200 people in the community of Sinde in southern Zambia, have been positively impacted by improvements to their water accessibility. The borehole in the village of Katiba has been converted from a hand pump to a solar array, while another borehole has been drilled and a solar array installed in...Read More
