We decided to start a more feasible and appropriate project, which is beekeeping, as we started at the beginning of the project with twelve hives with all their requirements of frames, risers, and barriers for queens. Since the beginning of last year and this year, the project has started to return good returns to the participants in it, and we have started marketing based on requests
The importance of this project for Randa and her colleagues lies in two aspects, says Randa. It comes from working in agriculture and in the settlements. As for the second aspect, it is represented in considering it as a success story for us as a group supported by MIFTAH, not only financially, but also in terms of the advice and training it provides us, and the invitations for us to participate in workshops it organizes targeting women. From various sectors, and the last thing that was financially provided to us was the honey extractor, which is one of our basic needs for the project to continue its growth and development, and therefore what we got was moral and self-empowerment, which we did not get from other institutions, and this is credited to MIFTAH, which It is distinguished from others by following up on its targeted women with support and empowerment.” She adds: “There may be a shortcoming on the part of some official departments towards women. But the presence of such projects in which women work and are supported by MIFTAH or others, makes women not obliged to work in settlements, for example, or to leave their places of residence to remote areas in search of sources of livelihood.”
