03/15/2016 Tuesday – a fantastic day! Today we had over 70 very dear guests on the farm: elementary school students from Mostar, and students of the recently held School of Beekeeping for Beginners, with our great practitioners and the entire staff of Something More. Today we showed our youngest participants how to become a beekeeper entrepreneur.
We enjoyed every minute: the leader of the workshop on beekeeping, Ešref Maksumić dipl. ing. agr., presented and demonstrated the most important segments of beekeeping for beginners: why bees are important, what makes up a bee colony, what makes up a hive, what equipment and tools are used in beekeeping, how and what to paint hives, how it is about placing the clock bases on the frames, what the spinner is and how it is used, and much more.
All workshop participants in small groups had the opportunity to properly assemble the hive, to work on drowning the wax / clock bases on the frames, to paint the hives with appropriate colors, and to try and see how one spinner from the honeycomb provides honey in jars.
The company from the elementary school Buna showed exceptional dexterity in every task, we would like them to come to us again and help us assemble all the hives and prepare them for the soon arrival of bees!
Today’s activities are organized within the project “Life skills for the future – we learn, we work!” which is part of the extensive project “Support to durable solutions of the Revised Strategy for the Implementation of Annex VII of the Dayton Peace Agreement” worth 8.1 million euros funded by the European Union (in the amount of 7 million euros through IPA 2012), and co-financed in the amount of 1.1 , million) and implemented by UNHCR in cooperation with project partners in ten priority municipalities. The project aims to help at least 2,400 vulnerable IDPs and returnees in BiH, including women victims of war, find solutions to the societal challenges they face on a daily basis, through close cooperation between local authorities, local communities, civil society and project partners, together with the Ministry of human rights and refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
We especially want to thank Unicef in Bosnia and Herzegovina for everything they do to reach as many young people as possible together, and to teach them Something More!
