Bee Conservation
Project BCP has partnership with some local and international
organizations, which focus on bees, beekeeping, apitherapy and
related issues with a view to accelerating the development of
beekeeping industry in Nigeria.
They
are:
German
Apitherapy Society: This is a body of German apitherapists
and beekeepers operating as a non-profit organisation to advance
health care through research into medical effects and uses of
bee products. As BCP partner, the German Apitherapy Society
is giving technical support towards the development of apitherapy
as a healing paradigm to reinforce health care in Nigeria.
Website:www.apitherapie.de
Pharma
Nectar Brazil: Pharma Nectar was founded as a beekeeping
company in 1980 but later diversified into processing of bee
products under the apitherapy point of view. Stimulated by the
amazing healing power of bee products, Pharma Nectar is fully
committed to promotion of apitherapy from scientific points
of view. To be able to do this successfully, the company needs
alliance of doctors, researchers and apitherapists worldwide,
hence the partnership with BCP to spread its tentacles to Nigeria.
Website:
www.pharmanectar.com.br
University
of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB): UNAAB is of one of the
three universities of Agriculture established by the Nigerian
Government with a tripodal mandate for Teaching, Research and
Extension services. Because beekeeping is core part of agriculture,
BCP has partnership with UNAAB to promote the development of
agriculture in order to redress poverty, unemployment, hunger,
diseases and environmental problems in Nigeria.
Websits:www.unaab.edu.ng
Justice, Development and Peace Commission, JDPC Ijebu Ode:
JDPC is a non-profit organisation established by the Catholic
Church to address the issues of social justice, economic development
and human rights. JDPC promotes beekeeping as part of its economic
empowerment programs, hence its partnership with BCP, which
is fully committed to the development of beekeeping and apitherapy
as the pivot of sustainable human development.
West
African Management Development Institutes Network WAMDEVIN,
Badagry: WAMDEVIN is a network of Management Development
Institutes in Anglophone West African Countries. Besides its
primary focus of strengthening the professional competence of
faculty staff of its affiliate institutes, WAMDEVIN also helps
in building the capacity of organizations engaged in job creation
and poverty alleviation. Hence, the nature of partnership between
BCP and WAMDEVIN is collaboration to train the employed youth
on the intricacies of beekeeping as a means of job creation
Website.www.wamdevin.net
Beekeeping
Extension Society, Kaduna:
This society was founded by Alhaji Idris M. B. Zaria, in 1996
to teach traditional beekeepers in Zaria and other parts of
Kaduna State the intricacies of modern beekeeping and organize
them into groups. The partnership between Beekeeping Extension
Society and BCP is to promote the development beekeeping and
apitherapy as tools for economic empowerment in our rural communities.
Website:www.biye.beekeepers.8m.net
