TRAIN AN ETHIOPIAN FARMER TO SET UP A BUSINESS WITH BEES

How do I do that?

Bees can set up home anywhere so with your support, our training and a hive we can give a farmer in Ethiopia a new source of income.

What does it cost?

It only costs £25 to train and set up a farmer with a hive which is everything they need to start their new business.

When will I see the difference?

When we've raised enough to train 50 farmers (£1,250).

What will I see?

We'll introduce you to the families you helped and show you their new fuzzy friends.

Tell me more...

As well as an income generating activity, beekeeping is a sustainable form of agriculture that is beneficial to the environment. It also provides important economic reasons for retaining natural habitats which might otherwise be under threat from widespread food and forage crop production.

Apart from honey, apiculture can also produce other valuable bi-products for producers - beeswax, propolis, royal jelly, bee venim and pollen amongst them.

Self Help Africa believes that beekeeping has a vital direct and indirect contribution to the development of many of the rural communities with whom it works. 

In addition to providing a direct source of family income, and improving family diet, the unseen role of bees as ‘pollinators’ is of immense value in rural areas. Indeed some estimates reckon that in warmer countries, as much as 75 per cent of all pollination of flowering plants is as a result of the foraging of bees.

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Kate Humble is a presenter for the BBC currently presenting Springwatch and Autumnwatch, among others. She is also a keen traveller.

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