Bee Keeping and Waterfalls

Hello there again, as promised a few photos of my trip on Wednesday with the Community Development Services womens bee keeping project.

Kate Beck runs the project, which started by training about 45 women in the art of keeping bee hives. Bee keeping is a lucrative job for women in Africa, as it is relatively low maintenance, yet the honey produced yields a reasonable profit. Earlier in the outreach she in partnership with the Ghanain Forestry commision ran a training camp for 3 days, a photo from which I posted under my projects post a couple of weeks ago


Every week, Kate visits a woman or two who attended the training and were given all the necessary equipment in their village. The task is presenting a video about bee keeping to the villagers, with the aim of educating them about what bees can do for their community, and also how to keep safe around hives.


Kate invites crew members to go with her to the villages to help her present the video, and encourage the women involved with their small presentation afterwards. We had a great time entertaining the kids until it was dark enough to project the video, and being shown around the hives and village. Note the gumboots - donated by a gumboot company in the UK!

The two women from the village we went to were very please to host us, and we had about 150 people show up to the education session.

In relaxing news, today a group of us - including 3 NZers went on a day trip to the Beautiful Boti Falls north of Accra. About two minutes after this photo was taken it started to pour. It was the first time in the whole of our time in Ghana that it has rained, and we were completely drenched! In the photo are fellow Kiwi nurses Jo Hill and Cairin Sharp - both from Auckland.

I thought I would throw this pic in too, of a group of nurses on a trip to the mouth of the Volta River last month. The river was just beautiful, and we had a marvelous time, staying in straw huts on the beach. The sunset was unreal, and so was the company!