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Eco-Club
15
Mar

Celebrating World Wildlife Day 2019 – Bobirwa Region, Botswana

15th March 2019, ,
World Wildlife Day is celebrated annually on the 3rd of March. This year’s theme is ‘Life below water: For people and planet’. The World Wildlife Day 2019 aligns closely with the Sustainable Development Goal 14 – Life below water, which focuses on marine species, and will be an opportunity to highlight the critical issues and...
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15
Mar

Kemelo Kopano – CITW Member attends Wilderness Safaris Guide Training

15th March 2019,
Kemelo joined the Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Eco-Club programme in 2006 when he was in Standard 4 at Tubu Primary School in the Okavango Region of Botswana. He attended a CITW camp as a camper at Jacana Camp in 2008 and again in Kaporota in 2009. Kemelo is born and raised in Tubu village,...
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05
Mar

Eco-Mentor Training for Tshwaragano Primary School Teachers in Gaborone, Botswana

5th March 2019,
Training for five teachers from Tshawaragano Primary School took place in Gaborone on the 27th and 28th of February, at the beautiful Gaborone Yacht Club. After the launch of the Eco-Club in October 2018, this training was a follow up for Eco-Mentors, giving them a more in-depth look at the Eco-Club Curriculum. We began by...
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25
Feb

CITW and Diacore Join Forces to Host 15 Environmental Sports Days

25th February 2019, ,
Children in the Wilderness (CITW), in association with Diacore Gaborone Marathon, has launched an exciting Sports in the Wilderness programme at 15 of its affiliated Eco-Club schools in Botswana. From 11 to 27 February 2019, each school will be hosting an environmentally-themed track and field Sports Day to inspire and motivate children to care for...
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21
Feb

Tree Planting Season… “Shade Already!”

21st February 2019,
Between April and December 2018, Children in the Wilderness Malawi Eco-Clubs raised 20,000 tree seedlings in its southern zone near Liwonde National Park. In the northern zone, the children participated in the Root to Fruit reforestation project, where over 20,000 seedlings were also raised and then distributed to the local communities by January 2019. From...
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19
Feb

World Environmental Education Day

19th February 2019,
Every January 26th, International Environmental Education Day is celebrated around the world. Environmental education is a dynamic and participatory process that seeks to awaken people’s awareness to environmental problems, allowing them to be identified both at global and local environment levels. The day’s aim is to identify relationships and independence of interactions that occur between...
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18
Feb

Diacore and CITW Sports Days kicked off last week, Botswana

18th February 2019, ,
The first week of Diacore and Children in the Wilderness Sports Days kicked off in the Okavango Region of Botswana last week. Just a few pictures from three of our schools in this Region – getting briefed and ready to run, and collecting litter. Diacore Sports Day – BeetshaDiacore Sports Day – Gudigwa Diacore Sports...
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15
Feb

World Pangolin Day Celebrations – Bobirwa, Botswana

15th February 2019, ,
Children in the Wilderness (CITW) aims to expose children to their natural heritage, in an effort to promote conservation and awareness around the environment. CITW believes that it is vitally important to observe and celebrate important world environmental days, which focus on endangered and threatened species, and pertinent environmental topics such as water, climate change,...
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05
Feb

CITW Rwanda – Growing in leaps and bounds

5th February 2019,
In line with Wilderness Safaris’ 4Cs sustainability ethos (Commerce, Conservation, Community and Culture), Children in the Wilderness (CITW) was launched in the community surrounding Bisate Lodge. Here we aim to provide a specialised focus on environmental education for the children of Bisate who will one day become the decision makers and conservation leaders of the community. Both...
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20
Dec

Central African Wilderness Safaris and Children in the Wilderness

20th December 2018,
In the most recent Central African Wilderness Safaris (CAWS) Christmas and New Year email from Chris Badger (Managing Director), Chris talks about what Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Malawi has acheived in 2018. CAWS and CITW joined forces many years ago to run our programme around Malawi. Read Chris’s report below: CITW Malawi: 2018 has...
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