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
Lionsberg 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 Lionsberg 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...