Senior Students Working Together to Make a Difference in the World
Marcelle Gharibeh, Coordinator of Community Service at Awty International, said about her students, “The students were involved in raising fund such as bake sale activity on campus during the morning break to help in providing educational opportunity for the children of Pakistan. Thank you to the Hashoo Foundation in giving our students the opportunity to be involved in this educational global project.”
For more information about the Hashoo Foundation USA visit our blog www.hashoofoundationusablog.org and website at www.hashoofoundation.org or contact its director, Cristal Montañéz Baylor at 713 483 4990.
To find out more about the Awty International School, please visit www.awty.org. If interested in the school’s community service programming, please contact Marcelle Gharibeh at 713-686-4850, ext.5845.
About Hashoo Foundation’s Women’s Empowerment through Honey Bee Farming Project “Plan Bee”
Achievements
Our Mountain Honey Pays for Education
HOUSTON, TEXAS.- The Awty International School held its Upper School Assembly with the participation of approximately 300 students who witnessed four of their own, Margarita Delgado, Meghan Haffey, Juhee Shamsi, Ellie Whitaker, present a check in excess of $300.00 to Barbara Aksamit, Board Member of the Hashoo Foundation USA, in support of the Hashoo Foundation’s Women’s Empowerment through Honey Bee Farming “Plan Bee” Program.
Margarita Delgado, Meghan Haffey, Juhee Shamsi and Ellie Whitaker proudly present the check to Barbara Aksamit, Board Member Hashoo Foundation, during the Awty International School’s Upper School Assembly
Margarita Delgado, Meghan Haffey, Juhee Shamsi and Ellie Whitaker, all seniors in Awty’s 2012 graduating class, spent their time this school year collecting donations from their schoolmates to facilitate their goal of making a difference in the world during their last year at Awty International.
Marcelle Gharibeh, Coordinator of Community Service at Awty International, said about her students, “The students were involved in raising fund such as bake sale activity on campus during the morning break to help in providing educational opportunity for the children of Pakistan. Thank you to the Hashoo Foundation in giving our students the opportunity to be involved in this educational global project.”
The students’ valuable contribution to the Hashoo Foundation’s “Plan Bee” will provide a woman beekeeper in Pakistan with two (2) new beehives, training course and a production kit. This new micro enterprise will enable the beekeeper to earn a sustainable income, gain financial independence, improve her quality of life and send her children to school. The beehives are expected to produce 79.2 lb. (32 kg.) of honey per year. Hashoo Foundation is committed to link the beekeeper to profitable markets to sell their honey.
"Plan Bee" Women's Empowerment through Honey Bee Farming Project in Skardu, Pakistan
Barbara Aksamit expressed her appreciation to the students and the Awty International School for helping the Hashoo Foundation in pursuing a sustainable integrated approach to poverty alleviation in Pakistan, and for giving women the opportunity to become entrepreneur and educate their children.
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Barbara Aksamit, Board Member Hashoo Foundation, addresses the students during the Assembly.
For more information about the Hashoo Foundation USA visit our blog www.hashoofoundationusablog.org and website at www.hashoofoundation.org or contact its director, Cristal Montañéz Baylor at 713 483 4990.
To find out more about the Awty International School, please visit www.awty.org. If interested in the school’s community service programming, please contact Marcelle Gharibeh at 713-686-4850, ext.5845.
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About Hashoo Foundation’s Women’s Empowerment through Honey Bee Farming Project “Plan Bee”
The Women’s Empowerment through Honey Bee Farming Project Plan Bee was initiated by Hashoo Foundation to expand employment opportunities through the sale of high-quality honey in Northern Pakistan. The project addresses the discrepancy between the income earned by male and female beekeepers by educating the women in beekeeping and linking them to profitable markets.
Achievements
To date, Hashoo Foundation’s “Plan Bee” has trained 642 women in honeybee farming and developed honey value chain of the micro entrepreneurs. Courses which are taught in the local languages cover all aspects of the beekeeping, including beehive management, the extraction process, hygienic packaging, and transport of beehives, logistics and marketing. 1,727 beehives have been distributed and 31,000 kg. (68,343 lb.) of honey produced and sold to the market. More than 1,000 girls and boys are now attending quality schools as a result of this project.
Our Mountain Honey Pays for Education
Plan Bee is based on a system of social barter, designed to promote social change. Hashoo Foundation agrees to buy the women beekeepers' honey at market price and successfully links them to the lucrative markets in Pakistan, provided that the families agree to send their children to quality schools have regular health check-ups and improve nutrition at home. We believe that expanding income generating programs like “Plan Bee” will help strengthen vulnerable communities and help promote a more tolerant and inclusive society in Pakistan.
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