What this did for 15 beekeeping families.

No admin cut. No middlemen. Here are the receipts.

8 MO
Duration: 15
Participants: +7,000-10,000 BDT
Annual income per family: 100
Bee boxes

When the weather decides whether you eat, one bad season is all it takes.

In Sirajganj, families depend on farming that fails when the weather turns. Climate-vulnerable agriculture and long-term poverty keep households in a cycle where nothing can be planned for.

Beekeeping would break it. It pays steadily, and the pollination lifts the crop yields around it. What is missing is the skill, the equipment and a way into the market, and without those the work stays out of reach for the women and unemployed young people best placed to do it.

Where every pound went

Ref	Line item	Amount	Share
L-01	Bee boxes and hives	£1,045	31.0%

L-02	Bee colonies	£975	28.9%

L-03	Protective gear: suits, gloves, smokers	£279	8.3%

L-04	Skills development and training	£310	9.2%

L-05	Processing and packaging unit	£186	5.5%

L-06	Honey extractor machines	£124	3.7%

L-07	Monitoring and documentation	£155	4.6%

L-08	Partner administrative costs	£300	8.9%

Σ	Total deployed	£3,372	100%

Founders covered all operational costs, so members' contributions went to the project.

Six months. Four things.

01
Hives and colonies
100 bee boxes and their colonies, two hives per family, so each household started with enough to earn from rather than enough to experiment with.
02
Safety and processing kit
20 complete sets of protective gear, suits, gloves and smokers, plus two honey extractors shared across the group for processing.
03
Five days of training
Hands-on training for every family on modern apiculture, managing a hive, extracting honey and selling it.
04
Processing and packaging
A basic unit for filtering, bottling and labelling, with consistent branding, so the honey sells for what it is worth rather than at a raw-product price.