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Junior Ranger

Children and young people are regularly taught about specific environmental protection topics in educational units both at schools and directly in the nature. The focus is on the head, heart and hand principle, which combines education with joy and the practical experience of community in nature.

Schoolgardens

At all primary schools in Maun that participate in the Junior Ranger Programme, school gardens with vegetable beds and fruit trees are planted. In the accompanying educational units, the children learn everything about gardening: sowing seeds, the right soil, staking out beds and how to use tools for gardening.

Waste Management

Together with local staff, the founder of the foundation, Theda Gräfin Knyphausen, has established cooperations with numerous schools in the region and regularly holds workshops on the topics of waste separation, recycling and waste avoidance.

Scholarship

Young adults from Botswana can apply to the Knyphausen Foundation for an educational grant that will enable them to train as professional safari guides or multipliers of the Junior Ranger program.

Booklets

The Knyphausen Foundation produces educational material on nature-specific topics that serve as a practical reference work for the children and young people on the Junior Ranger programme during the educational units.