The Elizabeth Hudgin Centre story:

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If the motto of Nature's Gift Safaris is "Travel with Purpose", then the motto of the Elizabeth Hudgin Centre for Sustainability Learning is "Learning with Purpose".

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This concept of the EHC came from former NGS safari visitor and appropriate technology design-engineer Michael Frenchman. When he learned of Elizabeth's passing in July of 2021, he proposed to NGS co-founder David Mtui that a fitting and practical tribute and memorial to Elizabeth would be to establish a small scale farming teaching centre at  David's Mrefu EcoLodge.   With Michael's design consulting, David could continue and expand something that he'd already been doing - showing local farmers better farming methods - but do this in an expanded and more intense way both in terms of the kinds of practices and numbers of student farmers.