"Everything is permissable – but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissable – but not everything is constructive. Nobody should seek his own good but the good of others." - 1 Corinthians 10:23-24

Our mission

I went to Uganda in 2005, wanting to see for myself first-hand the problems of development and poverty in Africa, and what I could do to help remedy these problems. I have emerged having set up a business employing local Ugandan people and working directly with rural farmers, empowering them to escape poverty as well as develop both an economically and environmentally sustainable industry.

We aim to eradicate poverty in rural communities through beekeeping. Toward this we focus our energies on working with rural farmers in training and encouraging them to build long-term relationships.

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Nutrition and eco-friendly

Beekeeping is a suitable crop for the poor farmer for many reasons. Honey is higly nutritious energy food. The use of intercropping is promoted so that if one crop may fail another may be relied upon for household income. Intergrated farming provides a rich nectar source for bees, bees increase yields through pollination and is a low cost form of eco-friendly income generation. We work with farmers to promote these fundamentals.

Motivating farmers

Using our current beekeeping operations as a base we are expanding out in the community through supply of equipment and modern beekeeping education and training. This project is proving to be successful in motivating poor farmers, many of which have been involved in beekeeping at a subsistence level for many years, to work in co-operation with each other to suceed in creating a large scale quality exportable product.

Reliable market

Local farmers are ensured a ready market at set prices as opposed to fending for themselves often taking one jerrycan at a time to town. Many farmers complain they are getting ripped off. Middlemen often intervene promising money later that never appears. Malaika guarantees payment on sale and a reliable market at set prices.

Beehive Improvement

The majority of beekeepers in Uganda use traditional hives as they can obtain them cheaply. In our training we encourage the use of the Kenyan Top Bar hive (KTB). It is also low cost and easy to use but most importantly has a highly and better quality yield.

Modern Langstroth hives are also used with greater commercial emphasis for the farmer in applied beekeeping.

Types of beehives and honey produced per season

Promoting fair values

We promote gender equality and provide training, education and assistance to women as well as men as beekeeping is not gender specific. Beekeeping can give women economic freedom and encourages them to participate more in the workforce.