Beekeepers for Life, Empowering 1300 Uganda Women

The training started successfully with prayers, self-introduction, expectations, brief introduction about the programme by the officers then reaction to expectations, and there after the training started. The general attendance was 22 trainees and on the closing day we received the Senior Community Development Officer. The participants came up with the following expectations;

Knowledge and skills

Training allowances

T-shirts’ for identification

Hand outs

Learning tour visits

Equipment including KTBs, modern Bee suits  

The level of participation was good since all participants attended the training. The training sessions covered mainly all the areas of apiary management and siting: - Overview of bee beekeeping and status of beekeeping within the group 1. Beekeeping equipment and tools, 2. Apiary and Apiary siting, 3. Apiary and colony inspection and management, 4. Honeybee behaviour 5. Honeybee pests, predators and diseases and control measures, 6. Honeybee colony management and 7. Bee botany

 8. Outputs of the activity achieved • The training objectives were realized given the fact that all the pre-planned contents were able to be exhausted. • The Apiary management was understood and the participants agreed to practice good Beekeeping Practices • Participants get quality knowledge on beekeeping • Participant appreciated the benefit of colony inspection with its advantages • The participants practically were able to understand the various beekeeping methods and disease and pest control and finally bee hive equipment. • Participants were awarded certificates of completion at the close of the training • The training was closed by the Senior Community Development Officer – Bukedea district who promised to support the group in terms of capacity building and material/equipment from the district