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Our Mission
The Hansberry Garden & Nature Center is an educational community resource center for environmental education in the Wayne/Hansberry region of Germantown. The mission of the nature center is to:
- Promote awareness and appreciation of the natural world;
- Promote understanding of the natural cycles and behavior of plants and animals; and
- Engender the values and attitudes among people that foster responsible stewardship of our urban environment.
Our Goals
- Construction of a facility at the corner of Wayne and Hansberry that will include an office, classrooms, meeting or work space, and a greenhouse;
- Development of themed "teaching gardens"
- Presentation of quality programs in environmental education for children and adults (afterschool, weekend workshops and/or summer day camp programs);
- Development of programs that will include environmental and community development-related work skills;
- Promote community recycling and litter control;
- Community organization/mobilization around environmental issues that affect our neighborhood;
- Science enrichment programs for school classes;
- Protection of wild/natural areas (these are not "waste areas")
*Adopted at the January 16, 2002 Board of Directors meeting.
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