This bee keeping handbook is a learning material developed to help vulnerable low-literate women living in rural communities of Masindi in Nyantonzi village in Mid Western Uganda to guide them in a bee keeping project.  The project grew out of exploitation experienced in the sugarcane company jobs with very low pay that limits women's access to meaningful jobs. More than 10,000 immigrants - mostly women living in the sugarcane - rich sub county of Budongo - are very poor and less educated; as a result, finding  jobs is a major challenge. Coupled with the fact that they do not own land and major properties, these women are very vulnerable. The bee keeping project is intended to improve these women's income by utilizing free government forest land to keep bees and earn a living, thus freeing the women from relying on casual labor offered at the sugar factories, which entails working in the fields and inside the factory for more than 10 hours for as low as USD1$ per day.

This is a product developed by Young Women Transform prize grantee Safeplan Uganda.