Christmas Appeal 2025 for Beekeeping and Skills Training in Uganda.
Beekeeping is a very valuable skill, as there is always a market for honey! This project will train two teachers from five Food for Thought schools in beekeeping and provide them with eight beehives for each school, Queen bees, a protective suit, hat and gloves. A group of young people will train in carpentry to make the bee hives, and be rewarded with training and a bee hive each.
Can you help fund this project?
£5 buys sunflower seeds and flowering shrubs to feed the bees
£15 pays for a ‘smoker’ to calm bees when working with them
£25 buys wood and materials to construct a modern beehive
£35 will train a teacher for one day – 4 days altogether
£40 buys a protective suit for a teacher
£50 buys barbed wire to fence the apiary
Please donate online through CAF https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/21412 or by cheque made out to ‘Devon Development Education. Christmas Appeal’, and post to DDE, Exeter Community Centre, 17 St David’s Hill, Exeter, EX4 3RG. If you wish to give this as a Christmas gift, we will send greetings to your family or friends, with information about this gift.
For DDE’s Christmas Appeal 2025 (which has always focused on Food for Thought, FFT), we decided to fund-raise for beekeeper training in Mubende. We asked Godfrey (the FFT Co-ordinator in Mubende District and a farmer trainer) to contact the 10 schools where teachers were trained back before the pandemic. The news he received was very encouraging. Six replied immediately and all had harvested honey, shared a small quantity with pupils and teachers, sold the rest and will use these funds for the school garden next term.
Biwanga PS sold 12 kgs, for 240,000UGX and bought 20kgs of maize seeds to plant.
Kyamukona PS sold 5kgs for 100,000UGX and purchased 100 banana suckers
Bulyana PS sold 6 kgs for 120,000UGX and purchased 12kgs of maize seeds
Kikandwa sold 8 kgs for 160,000UGX and plan to purchase garden tools with these funds
Kassana Public PS sold 10kgs for 200,000UGX and bought vegetable seeds for 50,000UGX and 15kgs of maize seeds
A teacher may be paid 400,000UGX a month, £88 approx, so these are significant sums of money. This is very helpful evidence of the positive, long-term impact of this work.