HIVE UGANDA - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Administrator
• Book Keeper

I grew up in post conflict recovery district of Gulu while conducting petty businesses to raised school fees for my studies. In my formal education I have picked up interest in accounting subject right from ordinary level up to diploma level due to the fact that I was engage in petty business which uses figures, calculation of loss and interest, record keeping and fore casting future happening as well as planning, budgeting and financial control. I have also worked with the hotel industries and local NGOs where I have instilled a lot of financial disciplined. With HIVE Uganda Limited I am offering my time in building the company books of account and what it is required to be done financially to ensure the future growth of the organisation in more acceptable manner in line with the principle that governs international accounting policies which is accepted by the law.

Job Titles:

• Director Research, Monitoring & Evaluation

I grew up in the rural community where people cherished hunting for wild honey dew to cultural background. But because of formal education I could not have enough time to participate in wild honey hunting with my peers so I had to find way where I can still get praised and served community with hone. I established my local bee hive where during every holiday I harvest honey. After my formal education I joint NGO work and for the ten years I have work as monitoring and evaluation officer, worked with youth groups in supporting them in managing their small business, good leadership in the groups, but my love and practices in honey bee keeping remains. So privately I have been practicing honey bee keeping, harvesting, and processing, packaging and marketing of bee product. I have joined HIVE Uganda Ltd to give in my expertise in beekeeping, processing, packaging and marketing by the blind while building the organisation monitoring and evaluation system. I am a Ugandan and live in the northern district of Gulu. I hold a Diploma in Cooperative and Business Administration and certificate in project planning and management from Uganda Cooperative collage.

Job Titles:

• Director Admistration & Co - Founder

I am Physically Disabled Person; I hold a Diploma in Education Secondary and Honours Degree in Public Administration and Management. Due to the high level of unemployment in Uganda I did part time Job as a teacher in a secondary School in my Sub-county while also participating in Bee Farming activity. I found bee farming very helpful in generating income to support my family and left part time teaching to become fully engaged in bee farming and selling honey products. Still then we use local bee hives and have not yet progressed to modern bee farming practice to increase production. Bee farming is very marketable though production is still very low to meet the market demands. Coming together as a team of three (Simon/Patrick/William) to share experiences and expertise in bee farming has been very helpful more especially through establishment of Hive Uganda Limited a company to promote the production and marketing of bee product locally and hopefully in the international market in the near future.

Job Titles:

• Co - Founder
• Managing Director

I am a partially sighted Ugandan who grew up from a rural community and I have been practising honey bee keeping and marketing for the last ten years. I have seen many talented blind and partially sighted people leaving their families and travel to urban areas in search of better opportunities, which most of them end up on streets since there are limited employments. Because I know that there is high demand for bee products worldwide which provide ready market, I am appling my knowledge, skills and experience to empower rural blind and partially sighted person become independent, self reliant and role models in the communities through training them in bee keeping and supporting them with bee hives and now 28 adult blind and partially sighted men and women of 20 years plus are practicing bee keeping in their home. In addition, I am playing the auxiliary role of running the affairs of the organisation with support from different expertise and other director.