Kitelakapel community has 90% of very poor and 10% of middle class consisting mainly teachers and local government officials who earn very poor pay and a few commercial farmers who suffer hot dry weather.
Kitelakapel is under kacheliba Parish-Kenya has 17 villages and 17 elders with a chief who works closely to see on the wellbeing of the people of the community through the Kitelakapel integrated Community Empowerment- Organization and projects, 175 members officially applied and joined the CBO to work together for their community and family households and we still receiving more applicants willing to join the group. The group was formed to empower the local people, the people love unity and self-support groups through which they are able get opportunities, save money, participate in economic activities like farming of animals, plants, Poultry, bee keeping, Mama Mbonga, market trading and other socio-economic activities and with support from AMANI international we are seeing good fruits and testimonies from local communities.
Special gratitude to AMANI….
AMANI is a Kiswahili word that means peace in the Kenyan language…. the more you empower the poor the more you achieve a peaceful and prosperous society.
We are delighted to announce the launch of a new beekeeping project implemented by kitelakapel in konyao, It was amazing and exciting to see the bees on our first day of installation of the bee hives . In the beginning of the project we started with identification and survay of land to start the bee keeping project after several meeetings with the KICE CBO board members ,Comboni Lay missionaries and parish MCCJ ,we agreed to take on 3 acres of land in konyoa town which land belongs to MCCJ kacheliba parish as per the memorum of understanding on the usage of the land and the value of the CBO Bee farming project.
With the donation from AMANI, We finally set up 50 bee hives and fenced them on 3acres of land in konyao –west pokot one hour drive from kitelakape village.
We managed to find support from the officer in charge of Bee farming from the county government ministry of agriculture West Pokot (Mrs Francisca) who guided us on how to fix them and attract bees.
A few local men where hired to carpentery, welding ,construction of the fence and clearing of the land,women breaking small stones for the fence while others making of the bee hives and others installing the bee hives in way they got temporary work and earned some little money to look after their families.We are lucky to also have the host family John Bosco the catetist of a charpel in the area of konyao who helped us with storage of the materials and bee hives and provied us some food during our visits to the beekeeping farm.
The project is being carried out with support of the local agricultural authorities and the community members. Our goal is not only to produce honey but also to create employment opportunities, support local development and promote environmentally friendly practices of Laudato Si.
ASANTE SANA (Thank you very much)…. AMANI from Kitelakapel integrated community Empowerment Community Based Organization and the people.
CLM community of Kitelakapel, Kenya
