In honor of World Bee Day, we are throwing it back to this UN Development Program article about The beekeepers of Liberia.
“With bee populations on the decline globally, small communities are playing their part in helping the environment thrive and prosper.
It’s difficult to generate an income for the few hundred residents of Meinpea Mah, just south of the Guinea-Liberia border, so when they were introduced to beekeeping, the Meinpea Mah Rural Women and Men for Development group took the idea and built a small honey business.
With help from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the community was given 13 hives and training from David Memakeh, a technician for Green Grow, a local NGO. Later, UNDP provided the group with business training and financial literacy like bookkeeping.
Since its inception with 22 women, the development group has grown to over 100 members, mostly women. But they had a rocky start.
You can read the full article here.