Quarterly Report June 2017 Maun Network

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Our visionTo preserve the habitat of endangered species, to protect the uniqueness of nature and to sensitize people to respectful treat-ment of natural resources – this is the vision of SAVE

Our projectsWith a focus on Africa, SAVE serves humans and animals – on the spot and in our Western society – with projects, help for self-help, net working, awareness campaigns and research.

Take joint actionTogether we are strong – therefore, SAVE needs the support of many people and organizations in order to achieve our common goals and visions.

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Education for a better futureTo accomplish its mission, SAVE has found it proper to educate young children on the importance of environmental conservation as well as cultivating a sense of sustainability and livelihood improvement within communities that they work with. An Early Childhood Development curriculum, aimed to teach the 3-5 year olds, has been developed to assist those educating the young stars to become proper conservationists as well as a student workbook to help students to understand better on practical activity.

The SAVE curriculum is designed in such a way that it builds the confidence and nurtures the child to appreciate nature at a young age. The curriculum includes story time, animal of the week, art and Physical Education. This has been a great success as other stakeholders and government in some areas are looking at partnerships in using the SAVE curriculum and the student workbook

SAVE also supports the formal schools in its areas of work, through conducting environmental education presentations and hands on activities to the primary school going children, which are 6-13 year olds. The children are engaged in classroom learning activities to support their already existing formal school curriculum with hands on learning as. If funding permits, they are taken out to wildlife management areas for sightseeing and experiencing bush activities, bush and animal identification, as some of these are an exciting first encounter experience for the children.

These educational experiences assist in modelling and changing the children, their parents and hence the whole community’s attitudes towards wildlife, and the environmental landscape in general hence peaceful living together with nature. Some of the children who have been in these presentations have opted to take up the conservation careers, e.g. professional guides at well-known conservation companies, to continue with the education.

The SAVE Kids for Conservation, project in has grown tremendously since 2014, with more playgroups registering with the program. A total of 1,598, this year alone, are enjoying these programs.

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SAVE WIlDlIfE areas of work and childern popualtions for 2017

Table showing SAVE areas per district and number of children attending the playgroups.

Environmental Education lessons children populations

Name location of project No. of Kids Year started

Sahakwe library Shakawe Village-Okavango District 50 2014

Moreomaoto Moreomaoto Village-Okavango District 32 2014

Gweta library Gweta Village- Central District 30 2014

Kasane-BaBaDi Kasane Village-Chobe District 64 2014

Belega Bana Shakawe Village-Okavango District 14 2017

Seronga DCM Seronga Village-Okavango District 24 2017

Kaputura Kaputura Village-Okavango District 50 2015

Tobere Tobere Village-Okavango District 48 2015

Nxamaseri Nxamaseri Village-Okavango District 57 2015

Xhaoga Xhaoga Village-Okavango District 40 2015

Samochima Samochima Village-Okavango District 90 2015

Ngarange Ngarange Village-Okavango District 40 2017

Botshelo Trust Shakawe Village-Okavango District 68 2017

St Agnes Maun Village-Ngamiland District 90 2017

St Augustine Maun Village-Ngamiland District 57 2017

Kealeboga Pre-School Maun Village-Ngamiland District 47 2017

Total No. of Kids 801

Name No. of Students

Shakawe 90

Kasane 45

Maun 662

Total 797

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In Shakawe, Moreomaoto and Gweta, SAVE has collaborated with the Village Development Committee and the playgroups are hosted in their community/village library where children come every morning from 0900hrs-1100hrs for their lessons. Due to the shared library space, not more than 40 children cannot be accommodated, up to 50 the children are sometimes taught outside the library building to accommodate all. Shakawe library hosts 50, with 2 trained teachers, Moreomaoto has 32 with 2 teachers, while Gweta has 30 and 2 teachers.

Kaputura has benefited from the Word of Africa Church which built the village a church premises which is being used as a classroom, it accommodates 50 children with 2 teachers. Tobere accommodates 48 children in a village development house as well, with 2 teachers.

The other playgroups which SAVE collaborated with the village development committee, and are housed there are Nxamaseri with 57 children and 2 teachers, Xhaoga 40 and 2 teachers, Samochima 2 teachers and 2 volunteer assistants. Botshelo Trust in Shakawe has partnered with SAVE and houses about 68 children with 2 teachers and 2 volunteers assistants. Belega Bana is a formal pre-school in Shakawe and have liked the SAVE curriculum and are piloting it on 14 children in their pre-school.

Seronga and Ngarange also since they are located in the delta and interested in educating their children on environmental conservation, had interest in piloting the SAVE curriculum and they house 24 and 40 children respectively.

St Agnes and St Augustine are a partnership with the Roman Catholic Church in Maun, they house 90 and 57 children respectively with 2 teachers and 1 assistant each. In Kasane, SAVE works with the Roman Catholic Church for the orphans and vulnerable children feeding program at the church premises in Kgaphamadi ward in Kasane, housing 64 children. Kealeboga is a formal pre-school in Maun and houses 47 children with 4 teachers.

for the Environmental Education program support, a total of 797 children, in Maun, Kasane and Shakawe, this year are benefitting from the school presentation and excursions in other areas where funding permits.

Playgroup

Environmental Education Club

Maun

The SAVE Playgroups include, Kealeboga, St Augustine, and St

Agnes formal Preschools. Gweta village and Moreomaoto village

playgroups. Environmental Education Clubs include, Bonatla,

Boseja, Gasebalwe, Gweta and Moreomaoto government primary

schools.

Shakawe

The SAVE playgroups include: Nxamaseri, Xhaoga, Samochima

villages playgroups, Botshelo Trust playgroup, and the Shakawe

library playgroup. Also included under Shakawe are the Tobere

and Kaputura village’s playgroups. Environmental Education

Clubs: Shakawe primary and the Holiday club

Kasane

Bana Ba Ditlou Project

The following are still piloting the SAVE Playgroup programme

and currently using the SAVE Early Childhood Development

curriculum at their centers: Belega Bana preschool in Shakawe,

Seronga and Ngarange villages in the Pan Handle.

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Summary of save work in numbers

1,598 boys and girls reached on environmental conservation lessons

80 hours per month of student training

3 untrained preschool teachers have been trained on ECD

352 Healthy meals distributed at Bana Ba Ditlou OVC in Kasane

Organized Community capacity building workshops for 550 people in 2 villages

22 human wildlife conflict areas have been reached

40 children taken for learning excursion. #inadequate funding.

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Environmental education lessons for the formal schools

The Environmental Education club for Moreomaoto comprises of approximately 70 students from Moremaoto Primary School. These students meet twice a week at Moremaoto library for a presentation. Due to high numbers of students attending these lessons, an assistant has been sourced out for help during lessons and activities for the afternoon Environmental Education Club, which consist of the students from the local primary school. With the Environmental clubs, the lessons and end of month presentations has been going on well with the support of the school management. SAVE currently working on a plan of having a SAVE E.E. student workshop in Tsodilo, where Gweta and Moremaoto clubs will meet with Shakawe clubs for a workshop to share lessons learnt and best practices.

Gasebalwe and Gweta Primary schools make up the Gweta Environmental Club and are also hosted by Gweta library it continues to be the best in the Maun network. Students from the two primary schools attend the lessons every week on Wednesday and with the collaborations with Peace Corps and Planet Baobab, they receive a variety of presentations and activities to motivate them into responsible conservation citizens. Collaboration with Planet Baobab means a lot of projects can be done together hence saving funds for SAVE, e.g. taking the children and the SAVE teachers for a learning excursion in to the Makgadikgadi for a year wrap up meeting.

In Maun, SAVE has made partnership with Bonatla, and Boseja Primary Schools E.E. clubs. Once a week a presentation is made concerning environmental conservation and issues that affect the environment and also lead environmental clubs in these school. E.E. students are also taken for learning workshops and excursions when funding permits.

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SAVE Environmental Clubs Topics for 20171. OUR ENVIRONMENT: At the end of the topic, children should be able to:

• Define their environment

• Identify living and non-living things

• Differentiate between natural and man-made things

• Explain the importance of the environment

• Explain how the environment can be conserved

2. WEATHER AND CLIMATE: At the end of the topic the children should be in able to:

• Define weather

• Define climate

• Understand how weather and climate relate

• know different types of weather

• know at least three weather instruments and their uses

• understand what contributes to/ what causes climate change

• know the worst results of climate change

3. NATURAL RESOURCES AROUND US: At the end of the topic the children should be able to:

• Understand the difference between natural and man-made

• List at least three natural resources in their village

• Mention the importance of natural resources in their village

• Mention one or few of the most important natural resource they know outside their village

• Explain how natural resources can be conserved

4. WATER AND WATER CYCLE: At the end of the topic the children should be able to:

• Explain where water comes from

• List at least three natural water sources one man-made water source

• Illustrate and label the water cycle

• Understand the importance of water

• Know different ways to conserve water

5. SOIL FORMATION AND EROSION:

At the end of the topic children should be able to:

• Explain how soil is formed

• Illustrate and label the soil structure

• Explain at least 3 uses or importance of soil

• Explain what causes soil erosion

• Explain at least three ways in which soil erosion

can be curbed

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6. THE ECOSYSTEM: At the end of the topic children should be able to:

• Define the ecosystem

• Classify animals

• Define habitat

• Discuss and differentiate food chain and food web.

• Discuss the food pyramid

• Understand the importance of the Ecosystem

7. FLORA AND FAUNA: At the end of the topic children should be able to:

• Define flora

• Define fauna

• Differentiate between flora and fauna

• Discuss the importance of flora and fauna

• Elaborate on flora and fauna they know that are protected and or endangered

• Discuss on how flora and fauna can be conserved

8. POLLUTION AND ITS CONTROL: At the end of the topic children should be able to:

• Define pollution

• Discuss different types of pollution

• Elaborate on how different types of pollution can be curbed

9. PROTECTED AREAS IN BOTSWANA: At the end of the topic children should be able to:

• Define protected areas

• List at least four protected areas in Botswana

• Discuss the protected area in or nearest to their village

• Elaborate role of their community to ensure the resources in their protected area is taken care of

• Discuss at least two places in Botswana apart from Wildlife Conservation areas that are protected

in Botswana

• Discuss the importance of having protected areas in Botswana

• Illustrate how protected areas in Botswana can be conserved

10. WRAP UP: At the end of the year, children should be able to:

• Discuss which topic they liked best in 2017 and why

• Discuss which topic they did not like best in 2017 and why

• Discuss which topic was not discussed in 2017 and the wish it could be addressed in 2018

• Elaborate on which activity or activities they liked best and would like to see more of apart from

classroom learning

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SAVE donates to Gweta flood victimsSAVE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FUND donated to flood victims in Gweta and Gasebalwe Seretse Primary School

and the Gweta Playgroup. The children were affected by the floods and some had to relocate from home, the

hampers included toiletry for the children for their daily use. A total of 185 children were assisted, that is 105

boys and 80 girls.

New interested playgroups

SAVE is working on fostering partnership with Phuduhudu and Kumaga villages to form playgroups in

collaboration with Elephants for Africa in the activities. They already do Environmental presentations and it will

be easy for the two to work together in the same area.

BaBaDi also in Kasane, SAVE to start a playgroup once all the renovation and acquiring of a new coordinator is

set. SAVE is already supporting their feeding program.

Community Development Programme

SAVE has been working with Mababe community on refurbishing the

Dizana campsite as well as supporting them in meetings appealing for the

Tshaa and Dijara campsites licenses to be given back to the community.

A meeting with the CBNRM Coordinator and Minister in Environment,

Natural Resource Conservation and Tourism was conducted with the

Mababe Trust members and SAVE Coordinator and it was mentioned that

the licenses will be given back soon, the ministry was still working on the

logistic and the guidelines so that the Trust does not go against what the

government wants from them. The trust was advised that SAVE will assist

them further after the licenses are out, in the anti-poaching project and

marketing of the community campsites.

SAVE continues to assist the community members in their social

liveli hoods needs, as the Trust does not have any income currently.

SAVE also is negotiating with the school management for a playgroup or

use of curriculum at the pre-school and with the community to establish

a yearly cultural event to market their cultural and way of life, as well as

share best practices.

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Training and Workshop One of the SAVE teachers from Gweta,

Omphemetse Otswakae, was sent for

training at Ghanzi in partnership with

Bokamoso Early Childhood Training and

the other teacher from Moremaoto, Nomsa

Baoki, was sent for bench marking at

Shakawe, where she leant various skills

including managing the children and

activities for childhood development.

Acknowledgements • All our direct playgroup partners: Moremaoto community, Gweta community, Kealeboga Pre-school, St Agnes,

St. Augustine - thanks!

• Thanks to the additional private donors, Bokamoso Early Childhood Training Centre and SAVE Wildlife Germany

for the continuous support

• Thanks to Planet Baobab cultural village for accommodating SAVE Maun staff during Gweta/Moremaoto trips.

We appreciate a lot.

• Thanks to Government Departments whom we work with closely, Regional Education Office, Department of

Wildlife, Department of forestry and Range Resources.

Report prepared by Wabotlhe Letubo, assisted by Maun SAVE Team, Pictures supplied by Maun team.

Ms. Omphemetse Otswakae Ms. Nomsa Baoki

SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund

Dieselstrasse 70 42489 Wülfrath Germany www.save-wildlife.org

SAVE bank account

Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal Konto-Nr.: 509 588 · BlZ: 330 500 00 IBAN: DE02 3305 0000 0000 5095 88 BIC: WUPSDE33