The SADC Regional Environmental Education Programme (SADC REEP) training is an annual training targeting environmental practitioners from the government sector, private sector and civil society in Botswana and the SADC region. This 2 week intense training rotates in the SADC countries and for 2012, it took place in Botswana, at Ghanzi from the 3rd – 14th December 2012.
The main objective of the course was to train environmentalists from all the sectors who will be able to disseminate Environmental Education/ Education for Sustainable Development in their workplaces and beyond, and to bring together environmental practitioners to network, share ideas and experiences and to advance their presentation skills. Participants were also to become project implementers through Change Projects Initiative where they were expected to propose a project which they will implement in their respective places of work or residence. These projects will be presented at a similar workshop next year (2013) in Botswana before end of December 2012 and some projects will be chosen to be represented at the Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa (EEASA) conference in 2014 at Malawi. There were excursion trips to Cheetah Conservation Botswana (CCB) Ghanzi camp, D'Kar village and Edo's Rhino Camp. CCB Camp Coordinator, Gavin Reynolds did a presentation on Energy Use and Conservation on behalf of CCB and promoted CCB's energy saving practices.

We had our annual staff meeting on the 11th of December 2012 at our head office in Gaborone, Mokolodi Nature Reserve. Great work and good things were accomplished in 2012 and we have more projects and tasks planned for 2013. After the meeting, we moved on to having our staff party which went on into the night, we all had a great time. Thank you to all our supporters in 2012 and we are looking forward to working with you again to ensure the Spirit of the Kalahari lives on.