LifeSkills: Beekeeping Training for Girls in Kenya
Beekeeping girl educaiton in Africa
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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.
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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: $4,970
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $0
Total Funding Goal: $4,970
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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
Nik Kafka
Executive Director
10 Tollington Park
London, N4 3QX
United Kingdom
+44 7890 420 205
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Teach A Man To Fish
10 Tollington Park
Islington,
London
N4 3QX
United Kingdom
+44 7890 420205
http://www.teachamantofish.org.uk
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Kenya
and can also be found under 
Microfinance.
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 June 26, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 3, 2006
Latest Update from the Field
Sweet Anticipation
By Jim Stephenson - Programmes Manager, January 22, 2008 05:12 PM
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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