2022.09.29 LIØNSBERG Kenya Call

Pokot Update

  • 115,000 KS donated by Jordan...
  • They have raised another 75,000 KS - at 190,000 KS...
  • Need 270,000 KS to begin... (balance of material buy to get to 450k)
  • Iron sheets, timber for roof, steel bars for ring beam and lintel, windows, doors, transportations... we have cement... we have brick machine...
  • What is already on site:
    • Cement, brick machine
    • walls of toilet facility...
    • Takes 40k KS just for transport for roof etc.
  • What is possible with 270k
    • 3 classrooms and one toilet, + completion of first toilet.
    • That is minimum requirement to get us certified...
    • Once certified - government will provide teachers and food...
    • Doing nursery school / pre-school (early childhood), can continue into grade 1 and 2...
    • $2,300 USD or 270k KS... certified within 1 month...
    • Have to do before end of September... School starts January...
      • If not ready - won't be a good time to begin...
      • Early Childhood -
      • Grade 1 - 50 students
    • 3 classrooms - each carries 25 students...
      • 1 early childhood at 25
      • 2 grade 1 at 50...
    • Each classroom costs - 200,000 KS to put up. $1,700 USD...
    • 230 plus 450 was going to be 680 = 230 / class including labor...
    • 20 days to make 10k bricks for 3 classrooms... then raising labor... 270k is materials in one trip...

Project to Fund the Schools

  • Every home has a traditional bee hive...
  • Honey from (that area) is among hte best in Kenya - Kenya only produces 20% of what it needs, import 80% - there is great demand.
  • That land is always green... next to hill that never drives...
  • Install 2,000 modern hives...
  • if you harvest only once per year, get 10 kilos of honey per hive, 80% success rate, harvesting 1,600 hives / year... each kilo of honey 800 KS - each hive gives you 8,000... harvesting 1,600 hives... 12M KS... if we sell as raw honey... sell 500 KS / kilo... 8M KS per hive... good weather up to 3 hives...
  • which is enough to pay teachers, buy uniforms, buy food...
  • On top serving school, training school for locals to upgrade traditional bee keeping methods...
  • Also value addition...
    • Wax,
    • Venoms...
    • Medicines...
    • etc...
  • Can run both Nairobi and Pokot at same time...
  • 1 hive installation costs 6,500 KS... hive is 5,500 plus 1,000 plus labor....
    • $55 USD...
    • within the first 6 months usually first harvest...
    • 10 kilos... = 8,000 KS...
  • Edwin - is professional bee keeping training...
    • Tobby also trained...
  • Concentration -
    • Normally spread at distance of 1 meter from each other...
    • given environment in Kenya - have quite a lot of bees... population of bees is sufficient to colonize all the hives...
    • Fill up 3-5 hives in a day or two...
  • Revolving Loan Fund
    • Fuels the build out of of a network of businesses that fund the operation of schools.
    • Loans for farming depending on natural patterns - will go beyond your control...
  • With 2,000, can run up to 3 schools...
  • Job Creation / Employment
    • many many young people looking for opportunity...
    • Learning to make hives our selves...
  • The Management and Accountability
  • Job Creation
    • Do we run 2,000 hives?
    • Or set up a network of businesses...
    • How many people working full time to manage 2,000 bee hives?
      • Run it section by section...
      • Every section segmented in groups of 50 hives...
      • monitoring and inspection
        • monthly cycles
        • And as they are getting colonized...
        • 2 month period just let bees settle in, get used to environment...
        • then two month cycle inspecting the hives...
  • Edwin's operation
    • 3 or 4 people to manage...
    • Do it in cycles of two months...
    • because of inspection time able to tell when there is a ready harvest...
    • able to schedule a harvest job for those that you have identified as ready...
    • 1 person that is living nearby... make sure there are no disturbances... keep an eye on things...
    • The other ones come and go...
    • Bees are less demanding, not daily work...
    • once colonized, just keep an eye on things, make sure they are not disturbed...
    • A couple days to do the inspection - with 2 or 3 helpers...
    • Harvest - 2 or 3 days...
    • 1 person watching, then just work with casuals who are properly trained...
  • 2,000 hives, 50 hive segments, 40 segment...
    • each box functions on its own schedule...
    • 1 queen in each box... lays 2,000 eggs per day... is all boxes occupied 4,000,000 eggs per day...
    • land so productive...
    • really improve the value of the land...
  • Oranges would also do well there... Mangos...
    • Passion fruits..
  • Increases the number of bees in the area... also increases food production...
  • Bore hole -
    • 5,000,000
    • Get 3 more quotes...
  • $10,000 Loan Fund
    • $2,300 to buy materials
    • $55 / hive x 100 = 5,500
    • subtotal of 7,800
    • Leave 2,200 of labor for the buildings and hives...
      • if we used 150,000 KS for materials for a 4th buildng
      • $1,200
    • Harumbe...
  • 20,000 KS / acre...
  • Trees...
    • 15 KS Eucalyptus
    • 100 to 200 Fruit trees...
  • EDWIN - is accountant...

Final Hypothesis

  • LIØNSBERG will try to help line up $10k loan fund.
  • Loan fund will be used to:
    • Buy materials for 4 classrooms
    • Buy 100 bee hives
    • Use remaining $ to secure supervisory labor to lead a "Harumbe style" raising where church and local community come together to make it happen.
  • By doing 4 buildings instead of 3, class size is equaled at 50 with 50 children in early childhood development, and 50 in grade 1.
  • This then creates the need to build 2 classrooms per year.
  • Construction done by October / early November...
  • Certification of the school by November / December...
  • Start school with 100 students in January...
  • Government certification of the school will trigger local government providing teachers and food...

Food for Thought...

  • Jordan also wants to explore whether LIØNSBERG should increase the size of its microfinance experiment in conjunction...
  • Two loan pools
    • One microfinance to fuel business startups and economic flow... can partner with Jamii Bora foundation if we'd like to...
    • One for school and business construction...