By David Turcani | Project Leader
The year 2017 we had started with big news. We had built our apiary, that will serve as an environmental centre and a place for apitherapy. This wooden structure was designed in a style that is traditional in this region but modern features were added. And we had worked on it busy as the bees. Don´t you believe? Look at this video: https://youtu.be/pPkj7-ZCowI.
Lot of work during spring was done with not really typical focus group - the Roma. We had taught them, we had discussed with them and we showed them how to keep bees. We had spent lot of time at schools with high population of Roma children.Topic of beekeeping and bees was for them something completely new, but nor children or adult were very keen on listening to this.
Corporate volunteering at Slovakia is still in development. But the more we are happy when companies are interested in our project. Perfect cooperation was started with DM drugstore . With their help we had created two "restaurants" for the pollinators where they can choose from a wide range of pollen rich flowers.
Also our "urban bees" are doing great. New apiary to our existing apiary at the city park in the town Lucenec was added. Again the place for apiary is not so common as it was set at the yard of the local museum and gallery. During season an exhibition The year of a beekeeper was in operation and the students were joining our workshops at the museum.
We were very delighted for the appreciation of our work. After 10 years of work and 5 years of existence of project Vcelí kRaj (Bee paradise) we were honored by Award of the Orange Foundation for community development, that might be liken to Oscars in the world of Slovak nonprofits.
However autumn is usually breathing space for us, autumn 2017 was the opposite. In to our lives a new member, maybe a new beekeeper or a support to our team - Teresa was welcomed. During autumn few other big things were done. We have a new object from artist Juraj Gábort at our premises. It serves as an outdoor classroom for our courses. New format of classes a conference that we plan to offer regularly was tried out. Topic of the first one was natural and ecological beekeeping.
And our social entrepreneurship is growing too. Our top-bar hives are made by an other new member in our team.
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