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RURAL POPULATION EMPOWERMENT: BEE KEEPING COMMUNITY PROJECT BY
KESOGON SELF HELP GROUP OF KITALE –KENYA
PROJECT PROPOSAL BY: KESOGON SELF HELP GROUP
P.O. BOX 1270-30200
KITALE
www.sites.google.com/site/kesogon
EMAIL: ovunyinda@yahoo.com
Email: puotengo@yahoo.com
TELEPHONE: +254 703 892 633
+1 434 420 6853
A Swahili saying goes, “Little by little fills a basket.” And, they also say, “A journey of a thousand
miles start with one step.”
Kesogon Self Help Group is about empowering rural folk, women and youth, and putting monetary
funds in their hands using a rather less utilized resource that is Beekeeping.
JUNE, 2015

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ABSTRACT
Bee keeping as an economic empowerment tool.
Current status of the bee keeping by Kesogon self- help group:
Currently we have Kshs700,000 (Approximately USD 7,000) worthy bee keeping educational
centre built by a grant from Wilde Geese through Bee Support Netherlands under Ellen Michaelis
and Bert Jan and some contribution from Charlfort Bees through Anna Chambers, and 22 hives
with colonies
Desired scenario/status of the project:
Recruit and train 100 new beekeepers
Purchase for new members 10 Beekeepers Starter Kits. Each member to get 1 hive and the other
equipment is shared but stored at the centre –
Starter kit comprises of:
 10 CAB Hives Latest Version of Langstroth Model for African Bee
 Wax Sheet
 2 Bee suites
 2 pairs of gloves
 1 smoker
 1 hive tool
 Carpentry tool for repairing and making our own hive in the future.
 Bees waxes Hands Soap making equipment.
 Honey and soap packaging and labelling equipment and materials.
 1 stainless steel extractor
 1 bee brush
 1 uncapping fork
 10 pair of strainers for sieving extracted honey
 1 beekeeping practical guide
 Practical training seminar( 1 day in the field)
Required finances/training to achieve the objective:
1 starter kit costs 152,000 from THE HIVE GROUP KENYA
10 X 152,000=1,520,000 (100 Kenyan Shillings= 1 US$).

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1.0 KESOGON SELF HELP GRPOUP ORGANIZATION
o Origins of the group: Started in 1994, founded by Peter Ukiru Otengo
o Area of operation: Kesogon Village, Kitale, Trans-Nzoia County in Rift Valley-
Kenya
o Main objectives: Alleviation of poverty through bee keeping activities
o Management/leadership structures: members: 22 Active members
o Beneficiaries : Kesogon Community
2.0 PROBLEM STATEMENT
The harsh truth is that unemployment and the resultant poverty continue to negatively impact many
rural communities in Kenya. Unemployment and poverty has severe repercussions on the people
as they cannot afford a good meal, health services and even a good education. The inhabitants of
the area live on less than two US dollars a day. This squarely places them in the class of extreme
poor according as per the United Nations standards. Something needs to be done and be done
urgently to deal with the problem.
Kesogon Self Help Group has decided since 1994 to take the bull by the horns and deal with the
troubling situation. The group comprises of twenty two members representing twenty two different
households within Kesogon Village, Kitale, Kenya. The group engages in bee keeping as their
economic empowerment tool. Currently the group members have a total of twenty two beehives
from which they have been harvesting 10 to 12 kilograms of honey per harvest per hive x 22 hives
x 6 harvests minimum per year which equals to 1,320kgs. The produce fetches about Kenya
Shillings 500 per kg which equals to Kenya Shillings 660,000 (approx. USD 6,600)
Apart from honey production our vision is setting up a rural based micro agriculture wax and veg
based handmade soap and waxes lotion to be sold locally and internationally. This depend on bees
pollinating crops like sunflowers which in end produce oils which will be used in soap making
instead of by the oils from other places.
While the impact of the initiative is still very limited, it has proven itself as a reliable concept of
empowering the local community. It provides a model that if successfully replicated it could
greatly alleviate the unemployment and poverty problem in the area. The successful replication
would require more villagers cum beneficiaries to be brought on board, trained on modern bee
keeping techniques, equipped with modern beehives and even more importantly seek a stable and
lucrative market for the group’s honey.
This envisaged project coverage expansion needs finances and continuous capacity building
support. The group aims to expand by absorbing as many members as possible from the more than
500 households in the locality. Through this initiative more poor Kenyans from the rural village

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of Kesogon in Kitale will be able to afford good education and health services not to mention a
meal per day and improved standards of living.
3.0 PROJECT GOAL AND OBJECTIVES
The main goal of this project is to provide a means of economic empowerment to the people of
Kesogon Village- Kitale through modern bee keeping.
To achieve this goal, the following objectives have to be attained within two years:
i. Increase the number of participating community members from the current twenty two to
the possible one hundred members.
ii. Increase the number of beehives kept by each member from the current one to at least three
beehives per member
iii. To increase the quantity of honey harvested per year from the current 1,320 kilograms to
7,800kilograms
iv. To increase the group’s annual honey sales revenue from the current Kshs. 660,000 to
Kshs. 3,900,000
v. To seek a more stable market for the group’s honey produce
vi. To adopt better quality modern bee keeping techniques
vii. Set up workshop where we will be able to make our own hives and other equipment, hence
making the project self-sustaining.
viii. Produce enough waxes which will be channeled into hand soap-making venture
ix. A Beekeeping and resource Center for members and other organizations in the county and
neighboring counties.
4.0 PROJECT METHODOLOGY
This section demonstrates how the project’s goals and objectives will be attained.
Community awareness
First and foremost the project team under the leadership of the project coordinator is going to
undertake a concerted awareness campaign among the community members so as to inform them
of the existence of the project and the benefits they stand to gain by being members. This will be
done through door to door visits, through the village elder meeting, announcement in churches and
other public meetings.
Induction training
Those interested in joining the program will be taken through a two week induction program
whereby they will be taught both the theoretical and practical aspects of bee keeping business. The
training will include physical farm visits, formal and informal discussions. Among the skills that

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will be impacted on the participants will include entrepreneurship skills, marketing skills and basic
book keeping skills not to mention the technical skills of beekeeping.
We envision on having other beekeepers and experts in related industry coming to train and share
with our members, to help them understand the concept and overcome any challenges they may
face.
Provision of startup kit
Upon the participants successfully going through the program and subject to availability of funds,
each of the participant will be provided with one free beehive (inclusive of set up and initial
colony) for a start.
Field Extension Activities
The program will seek the services of at least two trained agricultural field extension officers to
continuously monitor and advise the program members on best practices. The officers will also be
expected to resolve any technical problems that may be experienced by the members.
Harvesting
Honey will be harvested at least twice a year. The harvesting will be done in a systematic manner
with the involvement of the project team. This will ensure safe and clean harvesting of the honey
plus cut down on the harvesting costs (due to the economies of scale that result from harvesting
many beehives at a time).
Honey processing and packing
All the Honey sold by the project will be processed, packed and labeled at the center, so as to
maintain a certain standard of our product. The honey will be packed in containers of 250 grams,
500grams and 1kilogram plastic containers for ease of marketing. The containers will be well
sealed and labeled indicating the group’s name.
Marketing of produce
We are basically utilizing local market which is yet to be fully exploited before we can venture
into selling our honey abroad.
Cash disbursement to members
Every member will be paid for the amount of the Honey and waxes they bring in depending on
retail price and at the end of the year when the project makes a profit some percentage will be
given to members as a bonus depending on the amount they brought in that particular season.

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5.0 PROJECT’S KEY PERSONNEL
The chairperson of the self help group
Name: Alice Chore
Qualifications: High School and graduate of Nyangori Industrial Training Center
Responsibility: Overseeing the effective running of the entire project.
The secretary of the self help group
 name
 academic back ground
 experience in similar/related projects
 key responsibilities in the project
The treasurer of the self help group
Name: Otengo Musa Vunyinda
Qualification: Certified Public Accountant of Kenya Part 2
Responsibility: expenditure control, cashflow management and other financial management tasks
Bee keeping project coordinator
Name: Peter U. Otengo.
Experience in similar/related projects: Started beekeeping in 1994 after listening to a program
about Beekeeping in tropics by Nicola Bradbear of Bees for Developments on BBC’s farming
World. Has used jerrican top bar hive to clay pot innovated hives. Attended and presented papers
in Apimondia 2001 Durban South Africa, 2005 Dublin Ireland. 2007 Melbourne Australia.
International congress of social insect in Washington D.C 2006. Visited USDA Beekeeping Lab
in Baltimore. Hands on Beekeeping training in Germany
Responsibility: Operational direction for the group.

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6.0 THE BUDGET
Funding Requirements
Kesogon Self Help Group envisages purchasing ten (10) Beekeepers Starter Kits. Each of the one
hundred (100) new members will get 1 hive and the other equipment is shared but stored at the
group’s center.
Starter kit comprises of:
 10 CAB Hives- Latest Version of Langstroth Model for African Bee
 Wax Sheet
 2 Bee suites
 2 pairs of gloves
 1 smoker
 1 hive tool
 1 stainless steel extractor
 1 bee brush
 1 uncapping fork
 10 pair of strainers for sieving extracted honey
 1 beekeeping practical guide
 Practical training seminar( 1 day in the field)
A starter kit costs Kshs. 152,000 (approximately USD 1,520) from local Kenyan suppliers - The
Hive Group Kenya. The total cost for the ten (10) kits is therefore Kshs 1,520,000 (Approximately
USD 15,200)
Projected Revenue
Given the better equipment, the Group conservatively anticipates to harvest 30kgs of honey per
hive per harvest which totals to 60kgs per year per hives (two harvests per year). Therefore for the
100 hives it would total 6,000kgs of honey per year. At a sales price of Kshs 500 (approximately
USD 5) per kilogram, the Group would fetch Kshs 3,000,000 (approximately USD 30,000)

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7.0 PROJECT MONITORING AND EVALUATION
There will be continuous monitoring of the project’s activities to check whether its stated
objectives are being achieved. This continuous monitoring will be done by the project team.
Further, there will be in-depth semi-annual evaluation exercises to be conducted by the project
team and representatives from the funding agency.
The monitoring and evaluation will be guided by the following indicators:
1. the number of newly recruited members
2. the number of beehives owned by each member
3. the quantity of honey harvested per beehive per member
4. the total quantity of honey harvested by the group
5. the production and processing costs per kilogram of honey
6. the price fetched per kilogram of processed and packed honey
7. the net profits obtained per kilogram of honey
Information on the said indicators will be collected through questionnaires and interviews with
members.

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8.0 APPENDICES
CVs of key staff
Project Coordinator:
PETER OTENGO
3218 CAMPBELL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501(434)845-3018 HOME
CELL 434.420.6853CELL 434.316.8575
EMAIL puotengo@yahoo.com
OBJECTIVE
Seeking employment in an entry level that will allow me to develop and warehouse position to help
me grow into a career in the occupational industry as a new citizen
WORK EXPERIENCE
Stocker-Walmart, Sept. 2014-Present
Machine Operator- RST Marketing, Spartan-Aug 2014-Present
Warehouse Worker- J Crew, Adecco- Mar 2014- Aug 2014
Pastor, Pentecostal Assemblies of God- Kisumu, Kenya 2000-2010
Beekeeper-Kitale, Kenya 1994-2010
Chaplain-Boma Secondary School-Kitale, Kenya 2004-2006
Horitcultural Farming-Kitale, Kenya 1990-1997
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Training@USDA-ARS Bee Laboratory(Beltsville,MD) 2011, Solicited Funds for Beekeeping
Centre(2005-08), Attended Apimondia(Melbourne, Australia) 2007, Worked with Herr Arno
Bruder-Professional Beekeeper(upper Bavaria) 2007, Presentation-IUSSI Congress(Washington,
DC) and Training USDA(Beltsville,MD) 2007, Attended Apitherapy Congress-Internship(Germany)
2006, Presentation in Apimondia Congress(Dublin, Ireland), Won Photo Competition for Clay Pot
Invention(EU) 2005, Missionary Internship(Samburu,Kenya) 2002, Presentation “Poverty
Alleviation in Rural Areas Through Beekeeping,” (Durban, South Africa) 2001,
Missionary(Samburu,Kenya) 2000, Won Photo Competition for Jerican Hive invention in Bee for
Development Journal(UK), 1996, Founded Kesogon Self Help Group(Kenya) 1995, Started
Beekeeping Farming (Kenya) 1994
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Atlanta Bible College- Atlanta, GA 2011-2012
Faith Outreach International Ministry-Sayreville, NJ- 2010
Kenya Institute Of Professional Counseling-03/05-05/05
Pentecostal Bible College-Nyangori, Kenya 1997-2000

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Project Treasurer:
OTENGO MUSA VUNYINDA
P.O. Box 104832-00101, Nairobi
Tel: 0723 737 167
E-mail: ovunyinda@yahoo.com
CAREER PROFILE
I am result oriented accounting professional with recognized ability and proven record of
accomplishment in coordinating and implementing accounting functions. I am competent in
handling all areas of account including balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, and cash flows
among others. In addition to my high analytical and time management skills, I am skilled in
invoicing, preparingpurchaseorders, and quotations.Myfocusis to continuewith thesame level
of performancebutata morechallengingManagerial position within a diversified and rewarding
environment that recognizes growth and drives to business and personal growth.
Personal Details:
o Date of Birth: 25th April 1977
o Marital Status: Married
Education & Professional Qualifications:
o Certified Public Accountant of Kenya Part 2, Royal Net Institute Kitale, 2010
o Kenya Accounts Technician Certificate, Siaya Institute of Technology, 1999-2000
o Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education C (Plain) , Kapenguria Boys Secondary
School, 1992-1995
Key Professional Skills:
o Good working knowledge of accounting information, while keeping up to date with
changing financial rules and regulations
o Ability to pay attention to detail and report accurately
o Financial and strategic planning skills
o Proficient in Ms Suite, , internet explorer and intranet, Sage and Pastel accounting
package
o Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
o Strong planning and organizing abilities
o Integrity, commitment to service and respect for diversity
o Ability to quickly learn new systems, processes/procedures and adapt local practices to
global standards
o Ability to think creatively and an innovative approach to problem-solving

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Managing Director;
Vuli Investment Company Limited, May 2012- To Date;
Duties and Responsibilities:
The Managing Director is responsible for the daily business of the company. The
managing director will also represent the company; the managing director will conclude
contracts in the name of the company and will represent the company in court. The
managing director will have to observe the orders of the shareholders.
a) Diligence
The managing directors must exercise the diligence of a prudent businessman in the
conduct of the company’s affairs. They have a paramount duty of loyalty to the
company. The managing directors must cooperate in a spirit of good faith with the other
directors, the shareholders, keep himself informed about all material affairs of the
company, maintain silence on all confidential information and secrets of the company,
conscientiously supervise and direct subordinate bodies and employees, and be led by
the common good of the company and not his own benefit in all matters which affect the
company’s interests.
b) Compliance
Since the managing director is the head and the representative of the company the
managing director is more or less liable for the whole business. Although the managing
director may allocate tasks to other employees the managing director remains
responsible. The managing director may even be liable for criminal offences conducted
by employees.
The managing director will invite the shareholders to shareholders meetings; sign the
balance sheet and the tax return etc. Managing director will inform the shareholders
about the company’s affairs. Managing directors has to keep proper accounts and to
prepare the annual financial statement
The managing director is responsible for ensuring that the social security contributions
payable are paid punctually and in full to the respective collecting agency.

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Accounting Manager;
Meo Sacco Company Ltd, April 2006- May 2012;
o Reconciled all revenues collected on a daily basis. Checks balances against accounting
receipt records
o Posted accounting data by hand or by computer data entry in the cash journal on a daily
basis
o Maintained trial balance
o Prepared bank account deposit documents and confirms deposit totals
o Completed end of the month closing process and disburses revenues and other funds to
the appropriate entities
o Reconciled revenue reports on a monthly basis
o Prepared financial reports such as revenue summaries and bank account reconciliation
forms
o Maintained and served as point of contact with the Administrative Offices concerning
accounting issues
Tutor;
Kitale College of Professional Studies, 2003-2005;
o Planned, prepared and delivered lessons to a range of classes including putting up
displays in the classroom
o Marked work and gave appropriate feedback and maintained records of pupils'
progress and development
o Researched new topic areas, maintaining up-to-date subject knowledge and then
o Selected and used a range of different learning resources and equipment
o Undertook counseling duties, such as taking on the role of form tutor, and supported
students on an individual basis through academic or personal difficulties
o Prepared students for qualifications including external examinations and administering
o Managed student behavior in the classroom and on school premises, and applied
appropriate and effective measures in cases of misbehavior
o Liaised with other professionals, such as learning mentors, careers advisers, educational
psychologists and education welfare officers
Awards:
o Awarded Best Management Practices, 2007-2010
Interests:
o Sports
o Community Service and Development
o Volunteer work

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REFEREES:
Please feel free to contact the under mentioned in regard to my competence, work ethic and
performance.
Rural Electrification Authority
The Chancery
P.O. Box: 34585-00100,
Nairobi Kenya.
Tel:
+254-020-4953000
+254-020-4953600
David Walala
Community Alliance for Change
P.O. Box 1270-30200
Kitale, Kenya
+254 -711-850057
Boniface Kariuki Ndung’u
Catholic University of East Africa
P.O. Box 122
Nyahururu
Tel: 0737 618 648, 0721 881 745
Beehive catalogues
Facebook.com: KesogonSelf Help Group
Community

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Photographic evidence of current beekeeping activities by the Group.

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