Elephant Human Coexistence Workshops

These strategically designed workshops play a crucial role in making peace between humans and elephants by fostering empathy, awareness and a change in attitudes by portraying elephants as loving, family-oriented beings deserving of life.

We enable children to learn that elephants are not always aggressive. Fostering non-confrontational interactions with humans and elephants in communities experiencing and riddled with the Human-Elephant conflict first hand.

We further use tools and stories demonstrating the value of elephants as a tourist attraction, emphasizing their role in generating revenue for the country and revealing opportunities for future income through creative uses of elephant-related experiences.

What is most exciting is that we anticipate that these experiences will stimulate compassion by observing the playful behaviour of young calves in their natural habitat, broadening children’s perspectives through these new encounters.

We are also acutely aware of the need for all children, young people, and adults to feel acknowledged and supported in their challenges in living in these hotspots with elephants, and demonstrate that we as an organisation are committed to finding lasting solutions together.

The overall economic and ecological benefit to the country in protecting elephants will be emphasised as well as the importance of preventing human and elephant tragedies.

We bring 50 children of ages 7 years plus and 30 parents and youth from a village to the community hall in our office premises. They participate in a half day interactive discussions with Key HEC stakeholders such as farmers, hotel owners, safari jeep drivers, politicians and environmentalists. Then they are taken to a closeby National Park for an educative Jeep Safari to see elephants. They are given gifts of stationery and a T shirt and served vegan lunch and dinner.

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