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Sep

Wilderness & CITW Rwanda – Impact at work in Gishwati

9th September 2024Josephine BesticRwanda

In the first week of August 2024, Aline, our Children in the Wilderness (CITW) & Community Manager for Wilderness Rwanda, and her assistant Damascene, met with all the Eco-Mentors who are active at the two schools we partner with in the Gishwati area: Gisunzu Primary School and Kinihira Secondary School. The Eco-Mentors are responsible for...

Sep

CITW Namibia Celebrates World Water Week 25-29 August

2nd September 2024Josephine BesticNamibia

In celebration of World Water Week, Jakob Basson Combined School’s Eco-Club came together to spread awareness on ways to save water. They created educational posters and demonstrated tips for their fellow learners and teachers on how to use water more sparingly, by applying a few different practices in their day-to-day water consumption. Arguably, nowhere is...

Aug

Eco-Mentor Refresher for CITW Annual Camp

26th August 2024Kelly BaitshokiBotswana

Children in the Wilderness Botswana (CITW) will be running two children’s annual eco-camps this year – at Wilderness Jacana & Wilderness Vumbura Plains, both in the Okavango Delta. In preparation for these camps, on the 24th of August 2024 CITW conducted an Eco-Mentor refresher course for the current Eco-Mentors – to remind them of what...

Aug

Environmental Lesson at Warmquelle Primary School, Namibia

20th August 2024Josephine BesticNamibia

Veroo Kaura reports from CITW Namibia that this week’s lesson was from our Eco-Club at Warmquelle Primary School in the far north-western Kunene Region of Namibia. The lesson was about the plants in the school grounds. Plants provide us with oxygen and food, and also provide us with clean air as well as support wildlife....

Aug

Wilderness Impact at Work on CITW Rwanda Conservation Camps

19th August 2024Josephine BesticRwanda

Eighty children from eight primary schools in Rwanda’s Kinigi and Nyange sectors of the Musanze District, were hosted on two successful four-day Conservation Camps in August 2024. From Monday 5 through Thursday 8 August, and from Monday 12 to Thursday 15 August, Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Rwanda, in partnership with Conservation Heritage-Turambe, the Dian...

Aug

CITW Kenya – National Read-Aloud Event

16th August 2024Josephine BesticKenya

In partnership with Start a Library Trust, Governors’ Camp Collection and CITW Kenya were proud to engage children across the country in attempting to break the world record for the Most People Reading Aloud from the same text at the same time in multiple locations. National Read Aloud Event at the TAFA Community Center –...

Aug

CITW Zambezi & IUCN Launch Groundbreaking Ngamo Livestock Farm & Vocational Centre

7th August 2024Josephine BesticZimbabwe

August 2024 – Children in the Wilderness (CITW) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) are proud to join forces to unveil a pioneering sustainable farming initiative known as the Wilderness Ngamo Livestock Farm and Vocational Centre in Zimbabwe. Ground was officially broken on the 30th July, marking the start of this innovative...

Aug

CITW Namibia celebrates Youth Skills Day at Sesfontein

7th August 2024Josephine BesticNamibia

To celebrate World Youth Skills Day on 15 July, the Eco-Club learners and their Eco-Mentors at the Elias Amxab Combined School in Sesfontein came up with a thoughtful idea to showcase their skills and creativity by creating “fire balls” from recycled materials. The objective was to protect the environment rather than cut down trees for...

Aug

SACOLA Facilitates Donation of Four Cows to Genocide Survivor Families

5th August 2024Josephine BesticRwanda

As part of their ongoing efforts to drive socio-economic development projects in the rural areas adjacent to Volcanoes National Park, the Sabyinyo Community Livelihood Association (SACOLA) collects rental and community levies from Wilderness Sabyinyo. In July SACOLA was able to donate four cows to needy families of genocide survivors, significantly improving the lives of these...

Jul

When you Pack for a Purpose for your Wilderness Sabyinyo trip…

16th July 2024Josephine BesticRwanda

The Wilderness Sabyinyo team was delighted to welcome repeat guest Gail Woloz to Rwanda recently. This time Gail, through her Travel & Safaris outfit, brought a group of women to Sabyinyo to experience Volcanoes National Park and all the beauty Rwanda has to offer. They did not travel light! They all arrived with additional luggage...

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