By Marek Chalany | Project Coordinator
For many students of kindergartens and primary schools we awakened interest in beekeeping through the project called Bee Schools. Through the project called Beeznis we also teach people this trade, and we decided to share our experience with Roma in Banska Bystrica.
In the school year 2015/2016 we started the project Bee School, which was meant to teach children about the importance of bees and other beneficial insects. For children it was even more interesting thanks to practical activities. For doing and creating these activities the school gained points and the winner would get experiential learning program at our apiary. The winner, however, become a school in Svidník, which is too far from our apiary. So we decided to take our experiential program and go with it to Svidník. There, we were pleasantly surprised by enthusiasm of children. They were truly interested in this topic. Who knows, maybe thanks to this project, some of them are going to become beekeeprs.
The same success had a discussion called Dispute II. in Banska Bystrica. The topic of discussion was the Roma in Slovakia. We contributed to the discussion too by sharing our experience with this minority. In the project Beeznis we taught some of them a thing or two about beekeeping and processing of bee products. One of the graduates of this course is also Jozko, who became a beekeeper.
Thanks to such events, we see that our projects make sense.
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