Deear Esteemed Donors,
Happy new year 2022!
We are pleased to share our progress with you all.
Since September 2019, Budongo Women Bee enterprise campaign has been active on the GlobalGiving platform and you have generously donated $5072. With 63 donors in2021 alone we received a total donation of $3,423,52 together contributing to more than 200 beehives and impacting directly lives of more than 100 women.
During the COVID-19 years 2020/21 we managed to reach additional women groups (30members) with beehives, the Tweyombeke Agro-Conservation Association (TACA) who have received 110 beehives to date.
Your donation also helped us meet most of the operating cost in the organization as this was the only source, we relied on to support our activities. For this we say; Thank You So Much!
Aside of beekeeping project we have been reaching out to teenage girls affected by the prolonged out of school days leading to several of school growing girls getting unintended pregnancies. Some of the girls have left their home due to social and economic pressure above all exacerbated cases of violence in homes and communities are some of the drivers of unintended pregnancies.
It’s estimated that more than 1 million girls got pregnant during the prolonged out of school days, Masindi alone has more than 1,000 girls as young mothers or expecting to deliver before end of 2022.
One of our approaches is offering psychosocial support and increasing access to skills training and input-based support so these young girls have another chance to generate income to support their babies.
Plan ahead
We have a task to mobilize more young women up to 1,000 to support them with life saving skills which include, skills training in tailoring, psychosocial support, distribution of beehives and promoting life saving cooking and lighting technology.
Ongoing activities.
We continue with our initiatives to multiply beehives to benefit more women by allowing women to pay $23 up to 2 years per beehive as a refund to replicate beehive boxes to other members. We continue to:
Challenges:
We are still short of resources such as;
Call to action:
There are many more women in the community in high level poverty, young mothers as low as 16 years, YOUR donation is much more needed than before, therefore your help is highly appreciated.
To continue supporting the women of our community please visit https://goto.gg/41496 and we say THANK YOU in advance!
Dear Esteemed Donors,
We are so excited to share our happiness at Safeplan Uganda with all our donors because with our project the Budongo Women Bee Enterprises, since the campaign was launched in 2019, we have moved 1,000 miles much more as compared to the journey we moved from 2014.
In the recently concluded Climate change campaign, we managed to fundraise $2,991.02 from 24 donors and this enabled us;
We are indeed grateful for your contributions
We really appreciate how busy you are, however if you are interested to read more about our activities please visit our project reports, maybe read detail report below or learn how we make herbal syrup by visiting Kamilisha Herbal Syrup
Once more we are indeed grateful for your generous support.
Your sincerely,
Birungi Annet
Executive Director
Safeplan Uganda.
More Stories about the Report.
Budongo Women Bee Enterprise is one of the Safeplan Uganda initiative founded in 2014. Until now, the project has won two Awards and impacted more than 1,000 lives, supporting women groups with more than 250 cost recovery bee hives boxes.
In April 2021 by joining other non-profit organization during the GlobalGiving Climate Campaign, we managed to raise almost $3,000 which enabled us;
We also created a new partnership with one women’s group to benefit from our beehives loaning scheme – Tweyombeke Agro Conservation Group. Our intention is to increase honey production by multiplying beehives to benefit up to 1,000 each with 5 beehives by offering bee hives at initial cost of $10 and the women pay $25 for up to 12 months. We hope if they fail to raise the balance, they can pay with honey harvested. The groups are responsible for managing the beehives, and maintaining the apiary sites, while we at Safeplan Uganda provide free training and extension support to ensure the members benefit from the enterprise. We also try to link groups to both local and international partners. This way we are creating both funding and buyers of our honey products.
Tweyombeke Agro Conservation Association (TACA) is a registered local women group operating in one of the villages in Masindi where Safeplan Uganda operate its activities. They meet every Wednesday to save money which is shared at the end of the year. During the saving meetings they come and clean the apiary site as a group and all other activities which includes tree seed planting, agricultural seed multiplication and all other activities as a group. Safeplan Uganda also takes advantage of the group to sell energy product solar and cook stoves. These were all made possible because we have someone to move with us, to impact communities in Masindi.
We are mending a new partnership with Equity bank, a local finance institution that support youths and women with small loan of $100 -300. They support the group with financial literacy and other skills to manage their savings in the group. This way the groups can take small loan to finance individual apiary sites and also invest in household enterprises.
Overall, Safeplan Uganda works hard to ensure it meets its objectives. We appreciate our partners and well wisher who extend their support to our organisation to enable us cause the impact much needed by the world.
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Dear partners,
With much appreciation from Budongo Women Bee Enterprise (BUWOBE), and going through all the different COVID-19 lockdowns and the pandemic diffucult challenges across the world, the good news is that we have the vaccine and slowly we are getting back to normal.
Although nationwide restrictions for COVID-19 do not directly affect bee colonies, the bee keepers where disturbed socially, emotionally and had financial limits that prevented a number of activities to take place. Such activities included regular meetings, movement to locations which greatly affected the monitoring and the supervision of the apiary sites in the community.
We at Safeplan Uganda particularly cherish the BUWOBE project because it was our very first grant, and now it’s a two times award winner: firstly in 2014 with SeedInitiative Africa and secondly in 2018 the Young Women Transform Prize by USAID.
This means that we have to continue monitoring and supervising all activities even when we have no active grants as part of sustainability plan of the project.
During the month of April through May, some members have already started harvesting honey for the first season of 2021. We expect this year’s harvest to be better than last year.
As we continue to recruit and train more members, we expect to reach at least 500 members by the end of 2022 with basic skills on bee keeping. We are harnessing the merger resource we have to share knowledge and skills to ensure the project keep moving until it achieves its goals of “A self-reliant Woman” able to take care of themselves without fully relying on spouse or external support.
We have seen the outcome, other self-help groups from neighboring villages have started showing interest and we are supporting them with few hours of training so as to get them ready for bee keeping.
Kigaju forest camp is a private forest reserve is such community which have requested for our support to train the community to harness the privileges of living near the forest to keep bees while protecting the forest resources. This is expanding the need for our work and bringing value to Safeplan Uganda organization.
We very much continue to appreciate your support both from institutions and individuals, we are able to move because you are part of our initiative.
To learn more about all our activities and achievements please visit our website at Safeplan Uganda.
Yours faithfully,
Birungi Annet
Executive Director
Safeplan Uganda.
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Dear Partner,
We acknowledge and value the continued support given to the rural women of Budongo to strengthen their livelihood income through beekeeping.
Our campaign to Support 1000 Young Mothers with Beehives in Uganda has so far recieved $1,572.8 USD that has enabled us to produce more than 110 hives and distributed to more women.
In our most recent harvest we managed to get additional, 12kg of honey.
We have managed to recruit our own youth we trained as full time staff to produce bee equipment for increase honey production, this was becuase other people were willing to buy we had to increase production.
Also we look ahead to mobilize more funds to acquire modern packaging materials, honey processing machine to enable us market well packed and quality honey to meet the national and international levels of quality.
We continue to be profoundly impressed by your kind support towards the young mothers of Budongo Women Enterprise.
With gratitude
Safeplan Uganda
Birungi Annet
Executive Director
GlobalGiving Project report April 2020
In September 2019, Safeplan launched a campaign on GlobalGiving to support its project the Budongo Women Bee Enterprises, a total of $1,408 dollars was contributed by generous people from around the world, and up to 75 beehives were produced, each beneficiary now owns 3 bee hives, we continue to say thank you all for your support.
Activities accomplished include;
The USAID $15,000 prize funds ended on October 31st 2019, Safeplan Uganda organisation has the task to mobilise and fundraise to ensure project sustainability that is why we appreciate your support always because you have extended the project life beyond donor funds.
We are looking forward to mobilising more funds to continue the project to ensure each member owns at least five beehive boxes.
We want to thank you again and ask you to keep watch over our reports for more updates.
With appreciation
Safeplan Uganda
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