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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...

Jan

2020 Zambezi Food Programme Roundup

13th January 2021Josephine BesticZimbabwe

Thanks to many generous donors during 2020, Children in the Wilderness Zambezi has been able to distribute 2 706 food packs to those most in need. This equates to 108 tonnes of food, and has impacted approximately 13 530 people over the year, providing them with much-needed food relief at a time when so many...

Jan

Chicken Egg-Farming Start-up at Gishwati

11th January 2021Josephine BesticRwanda

After a request from the Gishwati community committee to Children in the Wilderness and Wilderness Safaris Rwanda, and thanks to generous donations from Wilderness Safaris’ guests, we were able to assist Gisunzu Primary School and the surrounding community with a special chicken egg-farming project at the start of this year. In the villages close to...

Dec

Solar Borehole Installed at Akayange

30th December 2020Josephine BesticRwanda

The last few days of 2020 have been particularly exciting for Akayange and Kayange villages, as well as Akayange Primary School. With the help of a generous donation from a Wilderness Safaris Rwanda guest, we have been able to install a solar borehole to provide water to 280 households consisting of more than 1 400...

Dec

Christmas Joy in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve

28th December 2020Josephine BesticBotswana

The Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) COVID-Relief food drive is the hardest drive of all our Botswana outreaches – not in terms of the volume of food parcels that need to be delivered, but the sheer expanse of kilometres that need to be covered, and the extremely rough terrain to get to these remote villages....

Dec

Jabulani Village Hygiene Kit Distribution

18th December 2020Josephine BesticZimbabwe

Sixty-eight Days for Girls hygiene kits were distributed to the Jabulani community, just outside of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. This was the second distribution from recent donations from the Stanwood Camano Island Chapter Group in the USA, and Brooke Shaw in Australia. For this distribution, we chose to give the kits to women of the Jabulani...

Dec

Wilderness Safaris & CITW Rwanda Provide Ongoing COVID-Relief to Gishwati Community

11th December 2020Josephine BesticRwanda

Children in the Wilderness and Wilderness Safaris Rwanda’s support for the Gishwati communities continued this month, with another round of food parcels distributed to the most disadvantaged families in the area. The team packed and prepared 1 735 kg of maize, 888 kg of beans and 230 soap bars (with a total value of...

Nov

Sesfontein Health Centre Vegetable Garden Donation

30th November 2020Josephine BesticNamibia

CITW Namibia works closely with the Sesfontein Health Centre through a nutrition and deworming initiative, as well as COVID-19 awareness offered jointly through Eco-Clubs. The facility was established in 1960 by Dr Nell and Nurse Julia Ganuses in Sesfontein. Mr Shikale, who is a registered nurse in charge of the health facility, started a small...

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