Locals Given Beehives to Curb Poverty, Help Environment
The World Vision is implementing the programs with support from World Vision Newslands.
NSANJE, Malawi - In an effort to curb poverty and empower the communities economically in the area of Senior Chief Chimombo in Nsanje, World Vision has distributed twenty beehives for them to start beekeeping, writes Cornelius Lupenga.
"We have been given 20 beehives which we are going to keep bees and later we will harvesting honey for sell," said villager Chisomo Fostino.
Fostino said people were involved in dubious activities such as wanton cutting down trees and charcoal production in order to earn a living.
He said such activities were fueling the destruction of the environment leading to the flooding of rivers which results in causing havoc in the villages.
Fostino said the coming of World Vision with an intervention of beekeeping has been welcomed as a saver to the environment as well as to the hardships the locals were going through.
Programs Manager for Nyachipere Area, Samson Semu said his organization was directed by Nsanje District Council to work in the area which had numerous problems it was facing.
He said the area in question had less development hence the intervention of World Vision in trying to address some of the challenges.
Semu acknowledged that World Vision distributed twenty beehives worth 8 million kwacha which he said the locals will be harvesting honey thereby supporting themselves.
"Honey selling will be their income generating activity as they will not be engaged in malpractices of devastation of the environment," said Semu.
Meanwhile Senior Chief Chimombo has hailed World Vision for bailing out his subjects with different interventions which he said at the end of 12 years of the organization operating in the area it is likely going to be developed.
"There are more projects being undertaken in my area of jurisdiction under World Vision," he said.
The World Vision is implementing the programs with support from World Vision Newslands.