Good news! The French Agence pour les Microts Projets has agreed to fund 30 new women with 5 beehives and associated equipment each. The equipment will be delivered to the women end of April.
This will bring the total women with beehives to 90. This means that now we have 57% women in our program.
We are pleased for them but they are many other women who wish to also increase their income from selling honey to improve the situation of their families.
With the 5 hives each woman can earn up 60 US$ per year from the sale of the honey.
In the villages some of the beekeepers have started the harvest of the honey. Those who have already started their harvest are reporting promising volume of honey. We will come back to you with more information on this year harvest in our next report.
Beekeeping is not too difficult to be done by women: most of the work is made by the bees. It does not require land (own by the men) and it bring an extra income to the women who will use it for health and educatioin expenses of their families.
An investment of 100 US$ for one hive will bring 12 US$ per year to a woman.
With the 12 US$ a woman in the village can pay for the school fees for 2 children or pay for medecine for one year for medication malaria for one children or buy 50kg of corn or 25 kg of rice.
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Some good news about women beekeeping in our villages. A French institution just approved the funding of 30 new women in the program of beekeeping.
The beekeepers are organised in cooperative in each village. In total there will be 68 men beekeepers and 110 women after this addition.
We have also to mentionned that the project PADEL B should provide an additional 1.000 hives to those cooperative, 600 of them for the women.
The enthousiasm of the women is really motivating us to keep looking for additional funds for the women.
It is only since 3 years that the first women were equipped with hives but they have seen all the advantages of this activity.
- it is not in competition with other activities relative to time
- It is bringing an annual revenue of about 60 us$ without too much work
- they have honey for the family needed by tradition
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Thank you for your support and the women beekeepers joign us to wish you an happy and healty 2021.
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Thanks to your donation and other donors we have been able to equip 20 women with beehives and associated equipment.
The women are from 3 villages Fon, Sipigui and Sissa in Burkina Faso. A tarining of 2 days was held in each village.
Theoretical training (one day):
Practical training (one day):
Expected results in the future:
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The women of Burkina Faso thank you.
COVID 19 did not reach the villages where we have the nbeekeeping project as far as we know. The health care system in rural area of Burkina Faso is very limited and to detect COVID 19 at this level is almost impossible.
However all roads to major cities were closed for 6 weeks and the collect of the harvest of honey was not easy.
The 2020 honey harvest was marginely better than in 2019. The best results came from the village of Nefrelaye were some women got 13kg of honet per hive. The average from the 68 women in the beekeeping project was 6kg of honey per hive.
For the more performant beekeeper it brings her 100 US$ of revenue with 5 hives and on average women got 50 US$ of revenue.
This revenue is very important for the women specially now. Most of the revenue generating activities of the women are linked with markets. Those were closed for 8 weeks making it difficult for the women to pay for essential services such as health expenses.
With those resuklts we are very much encouraged to keep looking for more funding for beehives for women.
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As mentionned in our last report, this period has been a period for cleaning the hives. A specialist went to all villages and trained the women beekeepers to clean the hives. This is mainly taking out some old wax inside the hives.
To help beekeepers to be better organised, we have helped them to start in each of the village a "SCOOPS": simplified cooperative. This was done in 8 villages, from which 2 are 100% women. In the other villages there is a mix between women and men.
We had to hold information meeting in each village so that they understand the advantages to be united:
A UNION of the SCOOPS was also created to bundle them.
It is a lot of work for members and for us, but we believe it is worst it.
Next activity of the beekeepers will be the harvest between end of March and end of April.
Each new hive funded for a woman will bring her a revenue of about 15$ per year. This is a lot of money for her and the bees do the work!!!
Hope you can help those women acquire more hives.
Thanks for your support.
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