NELBEM
Nessuit Livestock, Bee keeping and Environmental Management
1: When the Kenyan government started free primary education, a large number of children turned up for classes, but you can see in their eyes poverty, lack of school uniform but all in all they have the desire to be in school.
2: The school football goal post
3: Part of the school classrooms from outside and some school children during break.
4: One of the school children who missed going to school because of lack of school uniform which her parents could not afford. Instead of going to school, she has to assist her mother to fetch water from the river from about 2km from home.
5: A view of the hills from Sigaon Village. The environment is good for bee keeping as there are so many flowery plants, a forest and a small river nearby.
6: A sample of the bee farm which has been built within a family compound by one of one our members. He has dedicated almost an acre for beekeeping. He is an active member of the NELBEM project and has benefited from training at Baraka Agricultural College which was sponosored by Bees Abroad in the U.K.
7: A farmer who is an old man and a serious bee keeper, but lacks skill in harvesting and other essential knowledge for bee farming before the training at Baraka Agriculture College.
8: Members of NELBEM attending a course on beekeeping at Baraka Agricultural College in Molo in November 2005.
9: Members of NELBEM attending Practical in Baraka Agricultural College, at beekeeping site within the college farm during the last week of November 2005.