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
Donations Received!
I went over to local beekeeping supply store today to pick up 21 hive tools to give to beekeepers in Guinea (they make great gifts!), and not only did Tom, the owner, give me the hive tools at a rock bottom price, he donated EIGHTEEN brand spanking new bee suits!! Wow! This will certainly be appreciated! I think I'm going to bring nine of them on this Guinea trip (leaving Monday!), and bring the other nine to Tanzania in October. In addition to this, a local friend Joe Perrig
Donations Needed!
It appears I have another project in September, that will have me shipping out the day after I return from Guinea for Nicaragua, and will be there until a few days before I head to Tanzania ... where I'll be until I come back just in time to do the existing project in Nicaragua. Now all these projects other than Tanzania are funded by USAID, but Tanzania is an entirely Bee Aid International project that I'm depending on donations for, otherwise it will cause a deep hole in m
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