DeafNET aims to empower the Deaf with skills through our Beekeeping project. The purpose of the project is to contribute to poverty alleviation and also to promote sustainable development initiatives for Deaf people within the rural areas in Africa. We started this project in Uganda in 2015.
During the month of August 2018, the project experienced one of the milestones of its work by successfully carrying out training of the beneficiaries in Beekeeping and honey harvesting thanks to funds generated by DeafNET, South Africa. This was after a prolonged period without harvesting honey due to lack of knowledge on how to go about it. Read the full report here