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Mar

Jabulani Goat Project

16th March 2021Josephine BesticZimbabwe

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...

Mar

Wilderness Safaris and CITW Rwanda Provide Ongoing Support to Gishwati Community

11th March 2021Josephine BesticRwanda

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...

Mar

The Tshabolisa Community Development Project, Zimbabwe

9th March 2021Josephine BesticNews, Zimbabwe

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...

Mar

Life-Changing Solar Pump Donation to Otjinungua Mobile School

3rd March 2021Josephine BesticNamibia, News

“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...

Feb

Twabuka Primary School’s New Pre-School Classroom Block

24th February 2021Josephine BesticZambia

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...

Feb

Water for Sinde Village, Zambia

15th February 2021Josephine BesticZambia

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...

Feb

Nanthomba Zone YES and Eco-Club Activities – January 2021

2nd February 2021Josephine BesticMalawi

After a recent generous donation, CITW Malawi’s Symon Chibaka was able to organise a series of workshops for YES and Eco-Club children to learn more about COVID-19… what it is, how to protect themselves and their families from it, and through diet, how to build strong immune systems. Learning About COVID-19 Mr Nyirenda, a Health...

Feb

Himba Food Security at Otjondunda village in Kunene Region

2nd February 2021Josephine BesticNamibia

In the face of the deprivation and loss of earnings caused by the pandemic, in Namibia many Himba families have had to expand their home food production, and use traditional methods for food storage. They have also reverted to traditional medicine for healing. Girls milk goats for the younger children’s daily supply of thick milk...

Jan

Donation of Trees for Gisunzu Primary School, Gishwati

26th January 2021Josephine BesticRwanda

On Friday afternoon all 64 CITW Eco-Club learners and their six teachers from the Gisunzu Primary School, near Gishwati-Mukura National Park, had the opportunity to plant an indigenous tree, kindly donated by the agronomists at Bisate Lodge. The trees were planted on the school grounds, and all the children and teachers have promised to look...

Jan

Desk Donation for Bisate Secondary School

26th January 2021Josephine BesticRwanda

Bisate Secondary School has a total of 614 students. Through generous donations from Bisate Lodge guests, Children in the Wilderness has been able to supply the school with 99 new desks. The Bisate community committee requested this support as the school was short of these desks to meet the minimum requirements. The desks were made...

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