LifeSkills: Beekeeping Training for Girls in Kenya

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Summary

Help 750 girls in Kenya to help themselves by establishing a beekeeping training unit at a local school. Honey sales will fund future costs to ensure the project’s long term sustainability. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Poverty in rural Kenya is widespread despite the many opportunities that exist to make a good living. Targeted skills education offers a way to turn this situation around. Although women play a vital role in earning family income girls often get even less agricultural education than their male counterparts. By training girls from poor backgrounds in beekeeping, this project will not only teach them a profitable life-skill, but their school will generate income to fund places for the most needy.

Activities

By providing skills & business training to 750 girls in beekeeping this project will help them support themselves & their families – and by selling honey produced while teaching, the school will be able to fund scholarships to assist the most needy.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $2,489
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $2,381
Total Funding Goal: $4,870

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Not only will this program help to reduce long-term poverty amongst girls’ families by teaching them useful skills for earning a living, but by demonstrating the rewards of education it will encourage parents to keep their children in school.

Project Message

“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime”
- Chinese Proverb, Unknown

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Jim Stephenson,
Programmes Manager
10 Tollington Park
London, N4 3QX
United Kingdom
+44 7890 420 205
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Project Sponsor

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Organization

Teach A Man To Fish
10 Tollington Park
Islington, London N4 3QX
United Kingdom
+44 7890 420205
http://www.teachamantofish.org.uk

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 22, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 03, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Sweet Anticipation

By Jim Stephenson - Programmes Manager, January 22, 2008 05:12 PM

Sweet Anticipation!
By Jim Stephenson - Programme Manager
After waiting for swarming season to arrive, many hives have now been colonised and it is expected that the remaining hives will be colonised soon.

The colonisation has worked like the snowball effect: The rate of colonisation increases with every swarm that takes it home in the Lwak Apiary.

All agricultural teaching staff at the school (and a few more) have received comprehensive training from a local bee keeping education officer and are enjoying sharing their newly founded skills with the students.

We're all looking foward to the upcoming harvest!

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