Lilian Achieng Otieno “I graduated class eight in 2007 and there was nothing to be excited about. I would never get to high school, not with my father who had low regard for education and the meager wages that my mother earned from her small businesses. “Determined to make a living for myself, I enrolled […]
By Jonathan Kalan Bees. Specifically, African bees are probably not the first, or even fifth idea, that comes to mind when you think of alleviating poverty. Yet these little insects are causing a buzz by helping thousands of rural farmers in East Africa. For the past twelve years, Kenyan social business Honey Care Africa has […]
Joyce Kavinya Motunga, Kitui district, Kenya, who lives with many of her five children and four grandchildren in a small mud and brick hut in a village on the outskirts of Kitui district, Western Kenya. She’s been beekeeping for more than 10 years and is just one of Honey Care Africa’s 15,000 bee farmers in East […]
Africa Report TV series showcases successful entrepreneurs from Honey Care Africa in Kenya.
Kenya has great potential to be a net exporter of honey. Farmers in Siaya have embraced bee keeping as a business. This new venture is helping them increase their incomes and there is potential to start an extraction plant in the region. A partnership between farmers Equity Bank, Kenya Government, Honey Care Africa has provided […]
Founded in 2000, Honey Care Africa promotes sustainable beekeeping and aims to support thousands of farming families to grow out of poverty.
Nestlé has announced that Honey Care Africa, an East African fair trade honey company working with 35,000 farmers in South Sudan, is the overall winner of the company’s Creating Shared Value Prize.
WDI’s Ted London interviews Madison Ayer of Honey Care Africa and Farm Shop in this November 2015 interview.
Honey Care works with many partners and has joint initiatives with international development agencies, the Kenyan government, NGOs and charitable foundations, and micro-enterprise programs. It is involved with a number of other initiatives and individuals and also promotes beekeeping among self-help groups and hobbyists. Its employees spend much of their time in the field, conducting […]
