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| RDC,Deputy and the Ag cao kamwenge at the venue |
Sunday 9th March 10, 2014 was a climax day for the honey week in kamwenge the
event took place at kamwenge primary school and was organized by kabecos. The
guest of honor for the event was MR Biryabarema Elijah the newly
appointed RDC for Kamwenge District and
various people like the , clergy, cao
media fraternity and the developmental partners who had come to exhibit what
they do and how they contribute towards beekeeping.
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| RDC ,director kabecos touring the exhibition stall(in display) are some of the products made from honey) |
The Uganda honey trade project
2010-2014 was implemented by four partner
organisations,bees for development(BFD),apitrade Africa(AA),the Uganda
national apiculture development
organization(Tunado) and kamwenge beekeepers cooperative savings and credit
society(KABECOS).The three outcome of the project was to buy and sell more honey ,institutional
strengthening of value addition. The goal was to develop market access for
rural beekeepers in kamwenge and provide trade fairs opportunity for hives.
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| busiriba drama actors entertained the exhibitors |
The idea of honey week was conceived
by the project manager of Bees for Development Mr. Martin Jones so that all actors in the value chain was to showcase their products and services to the
public. The honey week was meant to raise awareness within the women, youth in
and outside schools and the entire public about the importance of bee keeping
in agriculture and sustainable economic development and Enterprise challenge
scheme was initiated to enhance value addition initiatives for women and youth
in kamwenge 238 people who were trained were futher challenged to compete
amongthemeselves in trading their products.
Under the enterprise challenge scheme
30 of these were commissioned to produce (creams, lotions) show case and demonstrate
their products and services to the public
Potential consumers) so that they
could earn extra income and improve their livelihoods, successful contestants
were given a grant of ugx 100,000 each to continue with their trade for a
period of two months.
The theme for the honey week was “bee keeping leverage for income generation
and improved sustainable livelihood”
The main
objective of the honey week is to raise awareness about the importance of
developing worthwhile market access for the youth and women rural poor so that they
can earn a reasonable income from the lucrative and useful beekeeping
enterprise
Specifically the honey week was to
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| wine that is made from honey and banana's |
§ Advocate for the apiculture sector
growth and worthwhile market access for the rural beekeepers through collective
marketing and bulking.
§ Emphasize the importance of best bee
keeping practices and to enhance the
quality of honey products and other hive products
§ Provide a platform for women and
youth in business to business networking.
§ Show case and receive feedback on
kamwenge honey products and other hive
products.
§ Practically demonstrate that
beekeeping is viable business and stimulate community members.
At the event there was honey
exhibition (displays and testing of different hive products and beekeeping equipment’s.
PRESENTATION FROM
RIC-NET
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| joy kiiza kamwenge E-centre showing the RDC ,deputy RDC ,mayor and some developmental partners on how we use ICT equipments to to reach information to the community |
RIC-NET presentation was made by ms
kiiza joy who talked about the various methods they use when availing
information to beekeepers like the use of internet at the e-center which
provides widest information on beekeeping, the use of KACOICE an information center
hosted by KABECOS which provides manual agricultural information . and the use
of mobile phone alerts.
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| some of the partcipants recieving her certificate |
Participants where given certificates
of attendance, presenters where given certificate of presentation by the guest
of honour Mr Biryabarema Elijah Resident
District Commissioner kamwenge.
The event ended at 7:00pm with a song from
the team from busiriba drama actors who
conveyed the message about the importance of bee keeping and encouraging more
people to join the struggle of bee keeping.
more photos for the event
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| certificate of participation warded to Rwenzori information centres Network |
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| newly appointed RDC handing over RIC-NET certificate to kiiza joy |
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| east rwenzori band that entertained the guests |
thanks for the great work
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