Children in the Wilderness Zimbabwe hosted an inaugural YES Programme Enterprise Camp at the end of August. This camp brought together 17 Form 3 girls from Ngamo Secondary, Kapane Secondary, and Sipepa High Schools in the Tsholotsho area near Hwange National Park. While the focus on this camp was on environmental education, life skills, enterprise,...Read More

The CITW Youth Environmental Stewardship (YES) programme is a product of the CITW Eco-Club programme. YES members are those youth who were Eco-Club members from between one and up to 15 years ago (i.e. dating back to 2004). These youth range from those who have just graduated from Eco-Clubs (at primary school level), and now...Read More

If one of the ways of measuring leadership is by how many people one can attract and influence, then these CITW YES youth are on it! Malaza Trading Centre – the crowd hooked on the CITW YES message for change – MalawiCITW YES Club addressing the crowd at Chintheche Trading Centre Chihame YES Club recently...Read More

CITW Malawi has four Youth Environmental Stewardship (YES) Clubs and over 160 active members. In the month of March, the youth organised a number of activities, which included: •             Selecting their leaders for the 2019/2020 year •             Educational trips •             Community sanitation awareness campaigns A trip to a rubber plantation. The Forest Manager explained how...Read More

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...Read More

Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Malawi runs environmental, life skills and educational camps for rural Malawian children and youths who are members of the programme. Every year Central African Wilderness Safaris closes its lodges to paying guests for a period of two weeks in order to host camps for these members. Camps for primary school...Read More

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...Read More

In each of our seven Regions where we operate – Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe – our after school Eco-Club programme continues to tick over nicely. The Eco-Clubs focus on environmental education and life skills lessons. Our YES Resource Book was officially launched in the Zambezi Region, reaching high school and early school leavers, also with a...Read More

Andrew Viyano is a Children in the Wilderness YES Club programme member who has spent more than 10 years with CITW. He started with the Eco-Club programme, moving on to become a YES Club member in secondary school. This year he will be graduating as a journalist from the University of Malawi. Last week he...Read More

Graduates of CITW’s Eco-Club programme move on to the YES Club programme. While Eco-Clubs are aimed at children in primary schools, YES Clubs are for youth in secondary school, and beyond. Napwa YES Club Educational Visit to Liwonde National Park – November 2018. These youth have been to Liwonde National Park a number of times,...Read More