While educating all the tourists that come to AWE is vital to world-wide conservation efforts, RHCRU recognizes it is equally important to educate the wider Urban & Rural African community about conservation and their local wildlife. Therefore, RHCRU has partnered with HO-PE ministries and the Joy of Healing to begin a conservation program in the Vingerkraal community, as well as to help with conservation based projects. We also host many rural community schools and charities who bring students out to meet elephants face to face and heart to heart, creating a tangible understanding of how wonderful elephants really are.