We are excited to announce the start of the Bee Prosperous Programme, with funding support from the DG Murray Trust. This is a two-year programme aimed at empowering 50 rural youth in KZN and Eastern Cape to establish 25 apiaries (beekeeping businesses). This programme includes comprehensive beekeeping training and mentorship, as well as infrastructure support (such as fencing and hives) and strategic market linkages for eligible trainees.
This programme is only available to youth who live within 25km of Kwanyana in the Amadiba area of the Eastern Cape, or within 60km of Obanjeni in KZN. Please note that no stipends are offered to trainees.
Programme duration: January 2024 – December 2025
Programme partners: DG Murray Trust and Kingdom Bees
Goal: To foster and sustainably support the emergence of an apiarist network within the rural communities where Siyazisiza operates.
Main Activities:
Beneficiaries: 30 youth from the Amadiba area and 20 youth from the Umlalazi area, of whom 60% minimum are women. (“Youth” are defined as young people from the ages of 18 – 35 years old.)
Donor information: DG Murray Trust (DGMT) is a public innovator through strategic investment. Innovation is achieved through behavioural change (influencing individual and societal mindsets and actions) and through technological change. For DGMT, public innovation is simply the process of making the world a better place for all people, in synergy with nature.
Logistics:
Trainee application criteria:
Selection process:
FIRST ROUND:
As a pair of applicants, to:
(This video must be no longer than 3 minutes.)
Please send this video via email to info@siyazisiza.org.za or via WhatsApp to 077 275 9107.
SECOND ROUND:
Applicants who successfully make it through to the second round will be required to attend an interview (as a pair). KZN applicants will be interviewed at Siyazisiza’s Zululand Agri-Support Centre, and Eastern Cape applicants will be interviewed in the Amadiba area (location to be provided). Part of the interview process will check how comfortable the applicants are around bees.
THIRD ROUND:
Applicants who successfully make it through to the third round will be required to get a police clearance certificate.
FINAL DECISION:
The successful applicants will be notified, and will be required to sign a Participation Agreement as an indication of their commitment to fulfil the requirements of the Programme, including participating in the training workshop, carrying out preparation and implementation tasks at their own apiary sites, following through with any requirements from the mentors, keeping detailed enterprise records, providing regular reports, and other obligations.
Any applicant found being dishonest in their application process will immediately be disqualified from acceptance into the programme.
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