Past Projects
Honey Products Limited (HPL) operates the enterprise and supervises the management and operation of micro-franchises across the country. The SEED Initiative provided seed funding and capacity building during start-up phase of the enterprise. AFRICAN BEEKEEPERS Limited from Kenya provided technical assistance for honey processing and beekeeping equipment. The Rural Livelihoods and Economic Enhancement Programme (RLEEP) provided support towards extension services to reach over 1500 smallholder beekeepers. The enterprise also worked with the Business Linkages Matching Fund (BLMF) to identify resources for purchase of a honey filtering machine. With Yamba Malawi (formerly known as Goods for Good), HPL implemented a beekeeping revolving fund project targeting vulnerable children like orphans, child headed households, women and other social underprivileged people under Ufulu Community based Organization (CBO). Overall HPL has distributed over 3500 Malawi standard beehives and over 5,000 Langstroth beehives with other modern beekeeping equipment and trained over 1,500 beekeepers across Malawi. Other organisations that HPL has worked with include: USAID & British Aid-Tetra Tech > under Modern Cooking for Health Forests Project, African Union- (Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources), Save the Children, United Purpose, CADECOM, SCOPE Malawi, CCDR Malawi, International Council for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), African Parks, Trustee of Agriculture Promotion Programme (TAPP), FISD Limited, Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), Kamuzu International Airport, Alliance One and many more
Achievements & Awards
- 2019 Winner of Growth Accelerator Malawi Program
- 2017 Recipient of Global Youth Entrepreneur on Rural impact by Child & Youth Finance International
- 2017 Recipient of Nextgen franchising award by International Franchisee Association
- 2015 Africa finalist of Sankalp Investment forum by Intellecap of India
- A 2014 Recipient of SEED Africa winner award by Seed Initiative that promotes sustainable social entrepreneurship