On 1st November the Nuevas Esperanzas family will be celebrating its 12th birthday and as it is now something of a tradition for us, we would love you to join us in celebrating. This year we would like to invite you to be part of one our most promising projects: beekeeping [watch videos]. The foundations for this project have been successfully laid but there is still huge potential to be developed. We need your support to continue this work which is helping to alleviate poverty in the remote communities on the slopes of the Telica Volcano in Nicaragua where we work. Our goal is to raise £8,000 to continue the beekeeping project.

Beekeeping has been successfully introduced. It is 7 years since we undertook our first pilot beekeeping project in the communities on the slopes of the Telica Volcano. Back then beekeeping was new to the families who are today´s enthusiastic beekeepers and it has made a big difference. No-one cuts down trees to get at a small quantity of honey anymore. Instead the beekeepers work to protect the forest knowing that the more bee-friendly trees there are, the more honey they will produce. Thanks to the bees income has increased and family nutrition has improved too. But… this is not enough. In order to exploit the full potential of beekeeping in these communities there is more to be done. We need your help to transform the lives of these new beekeepers.