The Thanda Foundation Trust, assisted by the Space for Elephants Foundation, together with funding from the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), has launched an elephant dung paper project in the town of Jozini in northern KwaZulu-Natal to contribute to employment and income-generation in the greater Thanda Safari community. The project empowers local communities, particularly women, to use elephant dung to make paper, which is  commercially sought after worldwide.