Gallery: Women beekeepers in Uganda

Updated: 16:53, Tuesday, 7 December 2010

Irish donors through the aid agency Bóthar have supported a beekeeping project in the border town of Tororo in Uganda.

The project was funded by the organisation for three years. The women sell the honey they produce as well as some products from the beeswax.

  • 200 farmers in Tororo have been involved in the beekeeping projects most were each given three beehives
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    200 farmers in Tororo have been involved in the beekeeping projects most were each given three beehives

  • The women bring the products their bees produce to a small processing building outside the town of Tororo
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    The women bring the products their bees produce to a small processing building outside the town of Tororo

  • Rita, a successful beekeeper who has 40 bee hives, talks to the project co-ordinator Anne
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    Rita, a successful beekeeper who has 40 bee hives, talks to the project co-ordinator Anne

  • Members of the association Annett and Felistas use the beeswax to make candles, which they will sell
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    Members of the association Annett and Felistas use the beeswax to make candles, which they will sell

  • After the honey is extracted the wax in boiled before it is poured into a mould to set
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    After the honey is extracted the wax in boiled before it is poured into a mould to set

  • The candles are then cut out of the mould and are sold along with the honey in a small shop in the centre
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    The candles are then cut out of the mould and are sold along with the honey in a small shop in the centre

  • Aside from learning about beekeeping, the women learn other new skills at the association
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    Aside from learning about beekeeping, the women learn other new skills at the association

  • The project aims to give women better social skills. It also teaches them about other farming techniques and family planning
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    The project aims to give women better social skills. It also teaches them about other farming techniques and family planning