Community Benefit Award 2011: Donating 5% of its income to the charity, the lodge maximises the benefits to the local area whilst the charity, Nema Foundation implements a wide array of community and conservation projects. Although in its infancy, this model has since become an award-winning and internationally applauded strategy for addressing extreme rural poverty and environmental degradation. The Lodge also won the Travel+Leisure Global Vision Awards 2010 in the category of Grassroots Outreach and the World Saver Awards 2011 in the Cateories of Education: Building schools, opening minds and Poverty: Enriching local communities.