
Hadzaland!
I'm always trying to encourage women to join in the beekeeping training, though in most places I've been it's mostly the men that do the beekeeping. So I was somewhat surprised when I got the Hadza beekeeping trainees together for the first time on a warm evening and found they were entirely women. "Where... are the men?" I asked, through my interpreter Neema, of the women gathered around under a large acacia in the approximate center of the very spread-out village (the house

Onward to 2016!
I apologize for neglecting the blog for awhile. First I was busy in Africa, then there was just a lot to process after that and to move on to my next project, training refugees in Australia. I (Kris Fricke) am in Australia now but Bee Aid projects will go on! In the Autumn of 2015 I went to East Africa to do the Bee Aid project withthe Hadza People, which was fantastic and I've been meaning to make a post about it, will soon. The planned project in Zanzibar fell through bec

Guinea 2015
Just returned from another successful project in Guinea, West Africa! From August 25th through September 12th I (Kris Fricke) was in Guinea on this project, planned and administered by Winrock International and funded by USAID in partnership with the Beekeepers Federation of Guinea (FAPI). Bee Aid International's contribution in addition to my own time consisted of buying materials such as hive tools to donate, and facilitating the donation of a number of bee suits from loca