Project Report
| Sep 18, 2019
Temporarily on hold
By Maria Luisa Chavez | Project Leader
We are temporarily pausing this project on the Global Giving platform in order to focus our efforts on the other project we have active.
Plus, we haven't had any activities nor donations related to this project for a while, and our project about helping 200 beekeepers fight against climate change is somehow covering the youngsters working in the honey coops.
We may reactivate it in order to look for funding for 5 young supervisors to be able to attend a two year course in apiculture partnering a local southern university.
Thanks for your support! Please keep on helping us in the future!
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/helping-200-beekepers-adapt-to-climate-change/
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Apr 22, 2019
This year's harvest: not great for our beekeepers
By Maria Luisa | Project Leader
This year's harvest hasn't been great for our beekeepers. Global warming is once again playing with weather conditions all over the world, changing the blooming periods and the rain seasons, bringing 2019 harvests in Mexico to a very low level. Normally by march our producers already have harvested some of the honey they will sell this year. It is not the case so far.
Also, the prices in the region we work in are reaching unprecedented lows, for conventional honey, as well as for organic honey. Our commercial contact is offering lower prices to the producers than in previous years, leaving them without the certainty of a steady income for the rest of the year.
That is why, our young beekeepers need your help more than ever! If we manage to fundraise enough money to pay for their supervisors' wage, they will be able to focus on improving their hive management and resilience, rather than trying to find new ways to obtain money for their families.
We hope to hear from you soon ;)
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Jan 24, 2019
Harvest season is soon beginning again.
By Maria Luisa | Volunteer
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The harvest season of our beekeepers in Chiapas is starting soon with the spring coming to Mexico in a couple of months.
Our young supervisors had a good first year's work, with a heavy honey production due to enabling environmental conditions in 2018. Only at the end of the year, unexpected rains took place in some of the communities we work in, undermining some of the hives that will have a rough start for the next season.
Our young supervisors are waiting for the project to begin again in order to receive their traveling expenses and aids to go on with their work. We will be reaching out to you for help very soon... ;)
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