Our policy is to employ and empower people from the local community and to support as many local enterprises and suppliers as possible.
 
The Elephant House makes use of all the local markets, employs, and empowers people from the local communities. It is offering these people an opportunity that they would not have had before by giving them training in the hospitality industry.
 
All the staffs at The Elephant House are very involved with all sectors of the local community, from the ""G&T set"" at the Addo Polo Club to the most underprivileged (indeed, it is here that, for example, with help from some of our guests, we have been able to build a crèche for Aids orphans in the Langbos as well as continually be able to supply them with food and regular clothes donations). We are also very involved with the wonderful people of the predominantly Xhosa speaking Nomatasanqua community where amongst other projects we support a soccer and cricket team.