Project Report
| Jun 4, 2024
Little bees are destroyed by cyclone Remal
By Mousumi Halder | Project Contributor
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Cyclone damage their habitat
Bangladesh is a disaster-prone area and every year cyclone faces all over the country. Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) is working for the natural resource conservation for ecological balance and more over livelihood improvement in the community people. In this case, BEDS established Sundarbans Resource harvesters Cooperatives Society where the forest dependent people working for livelihood improvement.
As a part of natural farming practices, cooperatives members started to apiculture which was providing them honey that could be economically benefited by the cooperatives. But once in a sudden friend bees lost their life and their house was destroyed by long time sustaining cyclone Remal. It was a occurred in 26 May-27 May,2024 and destroy their hive of honey and life of bees. In this cooperatives, 15 boxes bees was fly away out of 30 boxes and destroyed their habitat and hive by cyclone Remal.
BEDS is currently trying to raise funds from GlobalGiving platform in order to help those marginal people in the way of income generation for their better future with better economic conditions. We also hope that through taking support from various corners they will be able to use their products for earning their sound livelihood.
We would like to thank all our donors for being so kind to us so far. We are requesting all our kind donors to start monthly recurring donations. For recurring donation, please visit the followinglink; https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/livelihood-improvement-for-fishermen-families/
![Repairing the structure of Bees]()
Repairing the structure of Bees
![Bees flied away from beehives]()
Bees flied away from beehives
May 28, 2024
Bees are storing honey
By Mousumi Halder | Project Contributor
![Cooperatives members are harvesting honey]()
Cooperatives members are harvesting honey
Bangladesh is a riverine country with 700 rivers and it’s geographical location is adjacent to Bay of Bengal. Dacope upazila under Khulna division is a coastal area adjacent to Sundarbans. In this area, develops a cooperatives society namely BANOJIBI under Sundarbans Resource Harvesters Cooperatives Society Limited and Bangladesh Environment and Development society (BEDS) working for them. Here the cooperatives members involve with different innovative earning activity. Bee keeping is one of them and from this colony cooperatives harvesting honey and also this friend bees are helping pollination in the members farming land which is helping them to produce more production and earning opportunity.This benefits are getting the nearest farmer of BANOJIBI campus.
BEDS is currently trying to raise funds from GlobalGiving platform in order to help those marginal people in the way of income generation for their better future with better economic conditions. We also hope that through taking support from various corners they will be able to use their products for earning their sound livelihood.
We would like to thank all our donors for being so kind to us so far. We are requesting all our kind donors to start monthly recurring donations. For recurring donation, please visit the followinglink; https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/livelihood-improvement-for-fishermen-families/
![Increase numbers of production by bees]()
Increase numbers of production by bees
May 20, 2024
Swan makes them little bit king
By Mousumi Halder | Project Contributor
![Growing up new born swan]()
Growing up new born swan
Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) is working relentlessly for the conservation of ecology, socio economic development by maintaining ecological balance. To improve the socio-economic condition of local community people who are directly or indirectly depend on natural resource of forest are working for them. In this mission, BEDS developed a cooperatives society where different types of activities were performed by the members like integrated farming, solar energy, safe drinking water supply, storage of seed bank and different types of product production through this cooperative members. Among this activities, rearing of king swan is one of them and by generating new infant of swan, increase the number swan. By rearing this, Cooperatives are more benefited by this swan. So, swan make them little bit king.
BEDS is currently trying to raise funds from GlobalGiving platform in order to help those marginal people in the way of income generation for their better future with better economic conditions. We also hope that through taking support from various corners they will be able to use their products for earning their sound livelihood.
We would like to thank all our donors for being so kind to us so far. We are requesting all our kind donors to start monthly recurring donations. For recurring donation, please visit the followinglink; https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/livelihood-improvement-for-fishermen-families/
![Makes benefit by swan rearing]()
Makes benefit by swan rearing