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Dadamac and Beekeeping

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Zoneziwoh: Great, yeah! hope u saw my mail to u and Sasha, regarding the cameroon bee farmers

FredKayiwa's Proposal

FredKayiwa,Social Agriculture, April 24, 2007: IN MY STRUGGLE TO DEVELOPE THE RURAL communities in my home village I saw a need to start a bee keeping project because it looks easy and some people who are intrested what they need is the starting capital and knoweldge on how to start it.According to the servey ihave made there is much oppotunities for the community to earn aliving from the near by resources like the flowers around them can bring alot of bees to make them beehoney.I hope this is agreat opotynity to earn aliving also ihave found out that bees produce or you have to harvest twice ayear.Wich i see that its not so copmplicated to start provided one has some capital like 150usd.

i conatcted mr.BUSULWA avery big farmer in masaka town and he keeps alot of bees in his farm he has more than 50 bee hives so he accpeted to train some people who would live to do the same project and at least some people have got land were to start the bee project and right now they are going to start trainning how they can do it then once they get some money they will start the project

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TITLE OF THE PROJECT: BEEKEEPING.

NAME OF THE CONTACT PERSON. KAYIWA FRED .

TITLE: DIRECTOR.

SPEARHEADNG:

TEL: 256-782-371003

E-MAIL: [email protected],

PROJECT AREA: MASAKA DISTRICT.

TOTAL PROJECT COST REQUESTED:

PROBLEM STATMENT Many people are poor because they lack knowledge to do the income generating things from the available resources because they also lack starting capital as in money.

MISSION To Improve household income level especially among the elders and women economic empowerment.

Promote sustainable organic agriculture in order to increase household income in exporting the bee honey.

PROCEDURE OF THE PROJECT

1.The beehives will be given to different individuals, then after one harvesting season, they bring back some money to buy beehives for the rest who did not get like that like that.

WHY BEE PROJECT? It is cheaper for the poor in both effort and financially. There is available market for the bee products. It does not need much land to start it.

WHEN CAN ONE EXPECT RESULTS. After six months.

WHO ARE INVOLED/PARTICIPANTS

People in the community are the participants and the first targeted group is the people of Nabi Village.

REQUIREMENTS FOR A START 10 BEE HIVES THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF MONEY IS 260 USD

AND THE TEAM IS READY TO GIVE THE ACCOUNTABILTY ALWAYS TO THE MEMBERS OF MINICIU SODAS AND OTHER DONORS

The start of the project will be spearheaded by my Father called LUGANDA SAM who is so much interested in the business and he inspired me allot to start this project.

Then it will have to involve many people in the community step--by step.

What I can say is that I hope to work with copintent people whom I trust to be faithful to each other.

Mr. BUSULWA .

But my father knows him better and he talks on him good things. He is a man of God who does not keep things and knowledge to himself instead he shares it to others.

FredKayiwa and AndriusKulikauskas chat

July 30, 2007

AndriusKulikauskas: I am working just a bit on your Beekeeping proposal. It is 1300 USD for 50 hives, yes? :: Can you do a smaller amount of hives to start?

FredKayiwa: like 10 behives :: ?

AndriusKulikauskas: Yes. Could you start with 10?

FredKayiwa: yes i can start with 10 thats ok ANdrius

AndriusKulikauskas: Also, what is Mr. Busulwa's full name? Could you write more about him? :: How much would it cost for 10? :: Also do you know about Heifer International? Here is an article that mentions their beekeeping efforts in Africa http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.201766/

FredKayiwa: 260 usd for 10 behives

AndriusKulikauskas: that's a lot easier if we have to find the money ourselves :: and you can ask for 1030 usd if you get funding from a bigger organization :: but for our lab it is easier to do test projects

FredKayiwa: a lot easier what do u mean?

AndriusKulikauskas: And who will be your team? It's important to write about your team. :: It's a lot easier for us to try to find 260 usd, yes? :: Because we personally don't have much money. :: But then you can start and later expand.

FredKayiwa: perfect

AndriusKulikauskas: Perhaps somebody can later invest or perhaps the fundraisers will believe you because of the work you have already done.

FredKayiwa: so ihave to write about my team?

AndriusKulikauskas: Yes that's important. :: Especially for our lab because we want to help people be independent thinkers.

FredKayiwa: aright will do that :: thanks for the advise :: in 4 days from now iwil get ashort holiday hope tofind some money and travel to masaka :: do you know what Andrius?

AndriusKulikauskas: What Fred?

FredKayiwa: You will have to help me ask for funding from Heifer

AndriusKulikauskas: Yes and we can do the research together :: and you can try to write a letter :: and as you get response I and Sasha and others can keep helping.

FredKayiwa: perfect

AndriusKulikauskas: Sasha is gone this week but when he is back he can help. :: Little by little we'll keep at it. It's a great example of an on-the-ground project.

FredKayiwa: k thats why i ont see him n line :: And also ANdrius if you happen to dream of doing any bussiness in uganda please iwill be behind you

AndriusKulikauskas: ok it's good you write that :: I am writing proposals to new clients and I will have in mind that you can help :: you're a great asset for us all at our lab!

FredKayiwa: am ready to help

AndriusKulikauskas: and you have many thoughtful projects

FredKayiwa: i find this lab as my teache father and evry thing

AndriusKulikauskas: see this organization: http://www.beesfordevelopment.org/

FredKayiwa: am nt sure how iwill also have mature ideas but am dreaming for that

AndriusKulikauskas: They don't have funding but they do have a list of links to funders: http://www.beesfordevelopment.org/info/info/fund/index.shtml

AndriusKulikauskas: and they have advice on writing a good proposal: http://www.beesfordevelopment.org/info/info/fund/preparing-a-project-propo.shtml

FredKayiwa: ok

AndriusKulikauskas: You should write to them to ask for a free Resource Box with lots of information about beekeeping: http://www.beesfordevelopment.org/info/info/faq/what-is-a-resource-box.shtml

AndriusKulikauskas: If you explain what you are doing, then they will mail one to you. :: Their email is [email protected]

FredKayiwa: am going to try

AndriusKulikauskas: This is their team: http://www.beesfordevelopment.org/info/about/who-we-are.shtml

AndriusKulikauskas: You can write your email to one of the people such as Dr Nicola Bradbear

FredKayiwa: thanks ANdrius for this effort

AndriusKulikauskas: Your letter is much more important to them then my letter :: but I can keep advising you :: and also you can CC our groups :: or one of our groups so that we can follow :: and others can see your example.

FredKayiwa: pefect

Some data on bees

* Honeybees visit about 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey.

* Bees from the same hive visit about 225,000 flowers per day. One single bee usually visits between 50-1000 flowers a day, but can visit up to several thousand.

* Queens will lay almost 2000 eggs a day at a rate of 5 or 6 a minute. Between 175,000-200,000 eggs are laid per year.

* The average hive temperature is 93.5 degrees.

* Beeswax production in most hives is about 1 1/2% to 2% of the total honey yield.

* About 8 pounds of honey is eaten by bees to produce 1 pound of beeswax.

* Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans.

* Just a single hive contains approximately 40-45,000 bees!

* During honey production periods, a bee's life span is about 6 weeks.

* Honeybees visit about 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey.

* A bee travels an average of 1600 round trips in order to produce one ounce of honey; up to 6 miles per trip. To produce 2 pounds of honey, bees travel a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.

* Bees fly an average of 13-15 mph.

Top Bar Hive beekeeping

http://www2.gsu.edu/~biojdsx/main.htm

http://outdoorplace.org/beekeeping/kenya.htm

http://www.beesfordevelopment.org/info/info/topbar/index.shtml

http://www.beesource.com/eob/althive/tromp/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-bar_hive

http://bushfarms.com/beestopbarhives.htm

Useful links

Apis-UK June 2005 newsletter includes an article about PhilipMcCabe of the Irish Beekeeper's Association raised money for Bothar and Bees for Development Trust. Another article is about BBC news presenter BillTurnbull of Bees for Development.

Bees for development Youtube website with links to many beekeeping videos including intructional ones

http://www.honeycareafrica.com/ This is the link to Kenyan NGO

http://www.hivessavelives.com/_projects.asp Very uinteresting Fred, this people are helping beekeepers in Africa, I see they are very active in Uganda, and have connections with local beekeepers, you may contact them and ask for help

• http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=44816126086 The school of organic beekeeping on facebook.

Essential reading for a Beekeeping project

• http://www.beekeeping.com/articles/us/small_beekeeping/index.htm Peace corps book on TBH beekeeping.
• http://www2.gsu.edu/~biojdsx/main.htm The mother of all TBH bee sites on the net.
• http://bushfarms.com/bees.htm The best site on organic and simple beekeeping. Well worth reading and exploring. Wealth of informations.
• http://www.permaculture.org/nm/index.php/site/Beekeeping/ The place I would go to learn about TBH if I lived in North America.On the left side are pdf files of the clases including tbh plans. You can also see the galleries of pictures from the classes. Very informative.
• http://www.beesource.com/forums/index.php Best beekeeping forum on the internet. There is also a section for newbies, for TBH and for organic beekeeping. Lot of friendly and helpful beekepeers.

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• EndeavorLeader=SashaMrkailo
• EndeavorTeam=FredKayiwa
• EndeavorSummary=Organic beekeeping as a rightful way of making a living.
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• ProposalLeader=FredKayiwa
• ProposalSummary=FredKayiwa wants to start beekeeping in Nabinene Village in Masaka District, Uganda where his extended family leaves. Beekeeper Mr.Busulka will advise him locally and organic beekeeper SashaMrkailo will help through the Internet. Fred needs 260 USD to start with 10 hives. Money earned will be reinvested to provide hives for more participants.
• ProposalStatus=FredKayiwa has written his basic proposal and now is writing further about his team. He is also starting to look for funders.
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