This month I travelled to Uganda for the first time, visiting rural communities supported through our disability inclusion partnership with The Uganda National Apiculture Development Organisation (TUNADO). I was fortunate to spend this time with the remarkable Hope Agwang, TUNADO’s Disability Inclusion Officer. Her name could not be more fitting. Hope works with patience,
The Uganda National Apiculture Development Organisation (TUNADO) and Bees for Development are actively partnering with vocational schools for the Deaf in Uganda to deliver practical beekeeping trainings that create sustainable livelihoods for Deaf youth. The approach combines mindset change to inspire the young people to seek opportunities in apiculture, technical skills training in
Imagine a world where leaving school means facing a lifetime of unemployment. Where, if you are deaf, visually impaired, or living with a disability, opportunities are so scarce that you are expected to depend on others forever. This is the reality for many young people in Uganda today. Francis starting another batch
Rosa Vásquez Espinoza is a Peruvian Ph.D. scientist with Amazonian-Andean Indigenous roots, conservationist, and National Geographic Explorer whose work bridges cutting-edge science with ancestral knowledge. Founder of Amazon Research Internacional (ARI), she leads efforts to protect stingless bees, key pollinators of the Amazon Rainforest, while empowering Indigenous women and youth as conservation and science
Across the Peruvian Amazon, a quiet revolution is taking place—bringing together women, men, and youth, guided by ancestral knowledge, and powered by some of the rainforest’s smallest yet most essential inhabitants: stingless bees. While the program welcomes everyone, it has created a rare and transformative space for women to step into leadership roles in
Among the Batwa community, an indigenous tribe who once lived in the Bwindi and Mgahinga forests- a quiet transformation is taking place through beekeeping. The Batwa of southwestern Uganda were evicted from their ancestral forest land in the early 1990s following the gazetting of Bwindi Impenetrable and Mgahinga Gorilla National parks. Since then, many
It has been a busy and productive year at Bees for Development and we have selected five of our favourite highlights of the year to share with you. After spending the summer training teachers, we launched six new Buzz Clubs in schools around Donkorkrom, Ghana. Florence Sefakor of Bees for Development Ghana took
Since the Green Match fundraising campaign in April, there has been much activity in Zimbabwe. Robert Mutisi, founder of our partner organisation Working for Bees, gives us an update below on the impact that the generous donations from our Green Match donors has had. Beekeeping training for landless women 40 landless women
The Teso Region of East Uganda suffers from lack of natural resources, which leads to violent conflicts - one of the main causes of poverty in the region. The Karimojong, agro-pastoralists graze their cattle and sheep in Teso region during the dry season and return to their own traditional grazing
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