Training rural women in beekeeping

Thanks to your support, an essential first stage of the project has been successfully completed. We organized a major launch event bringing together women beneficiaries, the mayor's office, village chiefs and local partners. This meeting provided an opportunity to present the program's objectives, discuss community expectations and raise awareness of the importance of beekeeping for women's economic autonomy and the preservation of biodiversity.

On this day, the first beekeeping kits were officially handed over: overalls, protective equipment and the materials needed to start activities. This symbolic moment marked the concrete start of the project and elicited strong commitment from the participants.

The training sessions, mixing theory and practice, are now underway. They aim to equip the women with solid skills to manage their hives, ensure quality honey production and gradually develop an income-generating activity.

In January, we will welcome the French and Burkinabe teams for a technical support and experience-sharing mission. Their expertise will reinforce the quality of the training courses and help to establish good beekeeping practices in the long term.

All this would not have been possible without your generosity. Thank you for contributing to the emancipation of rural women and the development of a sustainable beekeeping industry in Casamance!

Hello to all Laafi difteers!
Some news on the SENAPI project, which is still on course... Thanks to your support, we've been able to start theoretical and practical training in beekeeping with the local APISEN cooperative.
The 100 women have therefore received 3 hives, and will have two weeks of training in Nyiassia: apiary management, hive manufacture, management of diseases and invasives, honey harvesting, marketing, sustainable practices...
Our trainers from Burkina Faso will then come to complete the course on marketing, traceability and setting up sustainable agricultural chains.

Dear Difteur-ses

Here we go!"

Our partner, the Apisen cooperative, has launched the manufacture of beehives from local wood, near Ziguinchor.

These hives will be made available to the women as soon as the technical training courses scheduled between May and June begin.

A great step towards beekeeping autonomy!

A big thank you for your support!

Bonjour à tous nos difteurs et difteuses,

We are delighted to announce that the order of500 hives for our SENAPI project in Casamance has gone! 🐝

The hives (a mix of langsroth and Kenyan for those in the know) will be made by our local partner, the Apisen cooperative, using Senegalese wood. They will be distributed at the start of training in April-May.

Each woman will therefore have an endowment of 3 beehives in the first year, 2 in January 2026. Their training also includes a workshop to learn how to make their own hives eventually. 🍯

We'll be sending you photos soon!

See you soon,

The Laafi team

Dear difters,

We are very happy to announce that the project to train women in beekeeping in Senegal is supported by extraordinary foundations (Akuo, la Guilde, Raja, DB Human).

We still need your support and your difts to finalize the project and support as many women in Casamance as possible!

Hello Captains! 
The SENAPI project starts with a field diagnostic phase, carried out with our partner the Fondation Energies pour le Monde, where we will gather information on the needs of beneficiaries and the state of the beekeeping sector: beekeeper profile, commercial outlets, production practices, mapping of players...
This is an essential activity as it enables us to better size the activities and women's training courses, to select the localities and participants, already having a good vision of their needs and potential.
The technical training courses will start at the end of 2024 with our local service provider APISEN, we'll tell you more in the next news...
Don't hesitate to support this fine project for women's emancipation and the protection of biodiversity in West Africa! Thank you 

Hello to all the Captains Laafi, first of all a immense thank you for choosing our beekeeping project in Senegal, it warms our hearts.
The SENAPI project officially started in April, and we were able to make a mission to Senegal to meet the partners and especially the women's group: discuss their needs, their beekeeping knowledge, size the training courses.... This is always a very rich and essential first step in setting up a program as close as possible to the realities on the ground.
We were able to visit their market gardening plots and identify areas to install hives in the mangroves.
The training courses will start in the autumn, followed by the provision of 5 hives per woman. Stay tuned!