Lack of opportunities for women impede their development and independence, social and economic. Women are starting to earn an income that they can manage themselves. Now they lead the changes that occur in communities. We have created a brand for your honey to be recognized in the capital Kinshasha. Continuous armed conflicts have caused an equally continuous rise in the price of basic foodstuffs such as potatoes, flour, milk, and even cassava, an essential product in local diets, making it very difficult to have a healthy diet.
Additionally, there is a shortage of infrastructure and access to basic services that have made the D. The situation is exacerbated in rural villages like Maluku, on the Plateau de Bateke km from Kinshasa, the capital of the D.
Women and girls have less opportunities to study and, therefore, to develop personally and socially. The majority of them cannot read or write. Traditionally, the principal economic activity in the area has been the cultivation of cassava.
However, on many occasions, families are forced to grow cassava simply to eat since they cannot access other basic products because of high prices. In this context, we want women to become honey producers. We have helped these women create 4 cooperatives engaging in mutual financial solidarity between members with small economic contributions that serve as micro-loans for the group. We are training them so that they learn to manage these microloans responsibly and to use them as investments in the production of honey.
In addition, as hives from outside the village were too expensive, we are training 40 young people from the same community in masonry so they can make and maintain hives at locally affordable prices — as well as to meet other local construction demands that families have doors, windows, etc. The women have started to produce honey, with bees that feed on the acacia forests that lie all around their communities.
