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Feb

CITW Rwanda meets with Scholarship parents and students

19th February 2024Josephine BesticRwanda

Aline and Jean Damascene, our hard-working CITW team in Rwanda, visited our three partner secondary schools to meet with the CITW Scholarship students and their parents. Rwabiharamba Secondary School, Akagera area In Rwanda we support 177 CITW Scholarship students for the duration of their six years of secondary schooling; the scholarships include school fees, uniforms...

Jan

Gishwati Community & CITW Update, January 2024

29th January 2024Josephine BesticRwanda

In January the Gishwati Community Committee came together for a meeting that is held three times a year. During the meeting, projects that are underway were discussed, as well as future projects to implement next at the schools and in the community. The members, who represent the greater Gishwati area, thanked Wilderness for their support...

Dec

Children in the Wilderness at Akayange Primary and Rwabiharamba Secondary schools

11th December 2023Josephine BesticRwanda

At Wilderness Magashi’s partner schools Akayange Primary and Rwabiharamba Secondary, the weekly environmental classes are met with great enthusiasm by the students. At Akayange Primary School, 60 learners partake in the weekly CITW Eco-Club, while at Rwabiharamba Secondary School, 65 students attend the weekly CITW Yes Club. In November, our Aline and Damascene ensured that...

Dec

Children in the Wilderness scholarships in action

11th December 2023Josephine BesticRwanda

CITW’s scholarship programme currently sponsors a total of 177 students for six years of schooling – at Bisate Secondary School near Wilderness Bisate, Rwabiharamba Secondary School in the area just outside Akagera National Park, where Wilderness Magashi is located, and Kinihira Secondary School, close to Gishwati Forest. However, since the programme has been running the...

Dec

Dreams come true for two CITW Malawi students

5th December 2023Josephine BesticMalawi

Children in the Wilderness Malawi’s Symon Chibaka is counting down to the end of a remarkable year, and celebrating some of his members’, and former students’, key achievements. First up are Davie Nkosi and Andrew Viano, both members of CITW’s Executive National Committee, and both of whom have achieved great success in their chosen careers....

Nov

Wilderness Celebrates Members Club Support of CITW Botswana

21st November 2023Josephine BesticBotswana

Okavango Wilderness Safaris gathered stakeholders from its exclusive Botswana Members Club programme at The Patio Restaurant in Gaborone, to express its heartfelt gratitude for the Members’ ongoing support, and the positive impact they enable. The Wilderness Members Club, inaugurated in 2012 and launched in Botswana in 2017, invites Southern African residents to join the Wilderness...

Nov

CITW Rwanda at Gishwati Forest

16th November 2023Josephine BesticRwanda

The start of the school year at the end of September means that all CITW Eco-Clubs in the Gishwati area were in full swing in October. At Gisunzu Primary School, 64 learners attend weekly environmental lessons. Since 26 students from the Eco-Club continued on to the secondary school this year, we could select 26 new...

Oct

Wilderness Rwanda & CITW support 177 scholarships for 2023-24 school year

4th October 2023Josephine BesticRwanda

Rwanda’s new school year started on the 25th of September 2023, heralding a very exciting time for the schools that Wilderness Rwanda’s non-profit, Children in the Wilderness (CITW), partners with in the company’s areas of operation. In addition to the current 140 scholarships, 37 new CITW scholarships have been awarded! This means a total of...

Sep

Children in the Wilderness Malawi – 2023/24 Programme Launch

28th September 2023Josephine BesticMalawi

This September we celebrate the start of the 2023-24 Eco-Club year, along with the new school year. 150 new Eco-Club members have been registered in 15 primary schools, making a total of 675 Eco-Club members, as well as 230 YES (Youth Environmental Stewardship) Club members. Our celebratory story, which we would like to share with...

Aug

CITW Rwanda successfully co-hosts 2 Conservation Camps for 80 children

21st August 2023Josephine BesticRwanda

Eighty young Children in the Wilderness (CITW) learners from six schools in Rwanda’s Kinigi area were hosted on two tremendously successful four-day Conservation Camps in August 2023. From Monday 7 through Thursday 10 August, CITW Rwanda, in partnership with Conservation Heritage-Turambe, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International and Muhisimbi Youth in Conservation, ran the first...

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