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The relief of poverty in any part of the world through beekeeping.

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We promote beekeeping to overcome poverty because communities can build sustainable, resilient enterprises to improve their quality of life. We conserve and maintain the environment for people with bees.

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Welcome to Bees Abroad

We are UK beekeepers and supporters who work as volunteers worldwide to reduce poverty. We work with overseas partners to equip low-income communities with beekeeping skills to generate income, improve their environment and crops through pollination, and learn the necessary business skills to make their enterprises sustainable and profitable.
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Communities

We work with low-income communities to develop sustainable beekeeping enterprises which give people the money needed to pay for necessities such as their children’s education. Continue reading “Communities”

Skills-based training

We provide beekeeping training in schools and colleges for both students and teachers. This provides young people with the necessary skills for sustainable and independent income-generation in adulthood. Continue reading “Skills-based training”

project support for a group of beekeeper beneficiaries

Apply for support

If you belong to a local community group, would you like to learn beekeeping skills? Keeping honey bees and producing honey can help reduce poverty. Continue reading “Apply for support”

Cameroon

Here we work in the Akwaya region in the very remote rainforests helping subsistence farmers to learn skills needed to use top bar hives and to build a honey co-operative to sell their honey.

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Kenya

Families in over 1000 communities, have received training in the skills needed to create a sustainable livelihood from beekeeping. We have projects in Laikipia County, Cheptebo, Kirinyaga and Kishimourak. Continue reading “Kenya”

Malawi

Our longest running project is in Nkhata Bay, Northern Malawi. Learn more about our village based system of ten trainers who have each trained 100 beekeepers.
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Nigeria

A challenging country where we have built and now manage a beekeeping network. The local skilled Ljebu Ode Beekeepers deliver a sustained quality service across South West Nigeria.
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Sierra Leone

Our most recent project is in the Barri Chiefdom villages of Korigboma, Mano, Makka, Semabu, and Taninahun where we will achieve sustainable beekeeping across five very remote villages. We look forward to the villagers seeing their first honey harvest in late 2017.
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Tanzania

Learn more about our project in the region of Mwanza in the villages of Kayenze and Malay. And our work in the Western region of Tabora in the village of Uyogo
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Ghana

Working with young people in Bandaman Senior High School, Cashew farmers in Brong Ahafo in the East and subsistence framers in Karimenga village in the Northern Ghana.
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