Honey Care Africa is a small, recently established
Kenyan Private sector
organisation that has been working to promote sustainable community-based
bee keeping initiatives across Kenya by establishing synergistic
partnerships
with numerous development organisations and diverse local communities.
Honey Care has been working closely with numerous development
organisations to make it easier for rural subsistence farmers
to engage in bee
keeping as a supplementary income source. Through access to easy
credit,
appropriate training and a guaranteed market, thousands of farmers
have now
started bee keeping across the country.
Honey Care strives to incorporate
all the elements of Fair Trade in its everyday
practices and operates as a responsible and ethical business. Further,
honey
Care is dedicated to ensuring that all its projects are socially,
environmentally,
and economically sustainable. In total, Honey Care has helped
to establish over
11,750 Langstroth hives across rural Kenya.
Honey Care Africa’s project partners
include the Danish International
Development Agency (DANIDA), the Kenyan Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural
Development, the Aga Khan Foundation, the Belgian Technical Co-operation,
the Kenyan Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, the
European
Union, the UNDP, the World Bank (through the Small and Medium Enterprise
Department), the Soros Foundation, Africa Now, DFID, and the German,
American, and Finnish Embassies in Kenya, among others.
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