Bees Abroad | Creating beekeepers for life

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Twin with a beekeeping project and bee part of the better future for a community in rural Africa

Join the

Community.

Find your

Twin.

Twin with a beekeeping project and bee part of the better future for a community in rural Africa

What is Hive Twinning?

Hive twinning is a living demonstration of your solidarity with rural communities across Africa. With your support, communities can take up beekeeping, building a livelihood that improves quality of life and supports the local environment.

Starting from £60 per hive per year, so just £5 a month, you can directly support one of our projects and get direct, exclusive updates in return.

Bees Abroad Projects are led by the community and grown from within the community.
Following the successful completion of a foundation year, projects are supported by us for an average of three years before graduating.

How it works

Select a project and join our Twinning Community

Receive your welcome pack and certificate

Enjoy exclusive project updates and events

Renew to enjoy another year of being a twin

What You Give

Your donation will go towards providing beekeepers with the training and equipment and ongoing support in sustainable beekeeping practices.

You will be helping a beekeeping community achieve their own visions for a better life. Beekeeping is a powerful tool to achieve a better and more sustainable livelihood.

What You Get

A personalised certificate and welcome letter with information on the project you are twinned with.
Direct, exclusive updates relating to the project you choose to twin with four times a year.
Hive Twin stickers - proudly display that you’re a twin! Add to your honey jars, or your journal.
Our care and support as a member of the hive twin community.

Find your twin. Pick a project that speaks to you

IN PROGRESS

Bulhalho Foundation

The Bulhalho Foundation (BUF) is a social enterprise on an ambitious journey. BUF aims to be a key player in Uganda’s honey sector to support 500 bee-farmers.

Participants

500

Duration

2-3 Years

Enterprise

Community

IN PROGRESS

Kyambomba Action 4 Life Group

Located in the remote regions of Uganda, near the border with the DRC, this group is a resilient collective of women beekeepers.

Participants

Duration

2 Years

Women

Community

IN PROGRESS

Kisembe Women's Group

This group took up beekeeping not only to produce honey but to naturally boost their fruit tree yields.

Participants

Duration

2 Years

Women

Pollination

Conservation

IN PROGRESS

Biringo Women Beekeepers

This collective of women farmers from Biringo with the goal of eradicating poverty through sustainable beekeeping and agriculture.

Participants

Duration

3 Years

Crops

Women

Community

IN PROGRESS

Divine Revelations Apiary

Formerly honey hunters, this group now maintains over 100 top-bar hives to help promote their agricultural activities and tree planting community program.

Participants

Duration

2 Years

Crops

Conservation

Community

IN PROGRESS

Umutara Deaf School

Providing vocational beekeeping training for Hearing Impaired students who face discrimination in the job market.

Participants

30+

Duration

7+ Years

Youth

Disability

IN PROGRESS
Road Barrier Widows
This women's group has chosen beekeeping alongside farming, handicrafts, and tailoring to improve their livelihoods.
Participants
30
Duration
3 Years
Women
Community
IN PROGRESS
Bee Farmers on Crutches
We're working with a local NGO to incorporate beekeeping in to a permaculture course tailored for amputees.
Participants
74
Duration
4-5 Years
Crops
Disability
IN PROGRESS
Atudorobesa Women’s Co-operative
A women’s group who have turned to beekeeping in the face of environmental degradation.
Participants
32
Duration
5 Years
Women
Conservation
Community
IN PROGRESS
Abotokio Slow Food Beekeepers
This farmer’s group practices beekeeping in line with Slow Food priorities on (bio)diversity, education and advocacy.
Participants
16
Duration
3 Years
Crops
Pollination
Community

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Corporate Interest

Our Twin Community

Jo Hemsley, Director of Corporate Sales

Twin: Kome Island Women Beekeepers

Stemmed from a mutual passion, we have not only twinned our rooftop beehives with a beehive on Kome Island in Tanzania, we have also launched our ‘Bee Our Guest’ package together, which includes a donation to support this wonderful charity.

Talusier, Owner

Twin: Bee Farmers on Curtches

Based in Quebec City, Hydromellerie Tal uses the honey harvested from their 150 hives to craft light and refreshing carbonated meads. They chose to support Bees Abroad because they believe in its mission to empower the disenfranchised through beekeeping and local communities. As a 1% for the planet member, they hope to give mead a new image by making it a drink everyone can enjoy and emphasizing its low environmental footprint.

Drink Mead, Save the Planet!

Franjo, Individual

Twin: Kome Island Women Beekeepers

My name is Franjo and I’m located on the island of Cres in Croatia, Europe and I live in the countryside, in a small village. I started beekeeping 11 years ago, at the end of my studying. I don’t even recall how I stumbled upon the “Bees abroad” project, but when I saw it I immediately decided to support the project.