Katutandike - Let's Get Started - Transforming Lives in Uganda

Our Social Enterprise encourages our beneficiary groups to engage in a self sustaining business capable of bringing in diversified revenues in the long run as well as economic empowerment/ improved livelihoods for their families and communities.

Benefits:

• Income generation – the sale of honey and other bee-based products generates income especially where there is a good local, regional and international market
• Low cost – beekeeping can be very low cost since hives and other equipment can be made locally
• Useful products – Honey is valued across the world as having health and medicinal properties. Beeswax is used in cosmetics, soaps, candles, polishes and other products
• Premium products – opportunity to market honey as organic or fair trade product
• Sustainable – beekeeping is sustainable and the activity helps conserve the natural environment and vegetation where bees live and forage
• Pollination – bees pollinate flowering plants and this activity is vital for life and maintaining the yields of many food and cash crops
• Promoting diversity and inclusiveness – The honey manufacturing process is managed by disabled and non-disabled beneficiaries

Stakeholder involvement in the value chain

Because the vulnerable groups that we target, live in abject poverty but have access to land as a resource, they are involved at the 1^st level of Bee farming. We then purchase the raw honey from the beneficiary groups and join the value chain at the 2^nd level to process and packaging the honey, brand and then market sell the finished product to various channels such as supermarkets. The profits are then shared/re-invested to expand the scope of the business and also provide sustainability and scalability to our work on Early Childhood Development.

We work hard to ensure safety, hygiene and purification standards at every stage by providing appropriate training to the target communities and also providing protective wear and the necessary equipment for farming, harvesting and post harvest handling.