• My name is Susan (not real names) 46. She is a happy woman! When conflict in South Sudan escalated in 2016 refugees fled to Uganda and settled in different parts of the country and one of the places they settled in is Bidibidi in Yumbe district. As the refugees where in dare need for humanitarian assistance, Caritas with funding from Caritas Denmark responded to the Emergency crisis to the refuges. Caritas through the application of the REHOPE strategy supported the host community with bee hives in 2018 which was given to the farmer groups as income generating activity. In 2017, Susan joined other host community members from her village in Barakala Sub County in Alipi Village to form Alipi farmers Group, supported by Caritas.

• Today, Susan has earned more than Ugx 150,000 from honey and has harvested up 25 litres of honey within 2021, she said that through a loan she acquired from the Village saving group in which she belongs to. She has bought some extra bee hives for her family.

• “Joining this farmers group has raised my family’s standard of living. I can afford to buy clothes and pay school fees for my grandchildren and even save some. The last time we shared our money, I received UGX 500,000 which I used to buy food items for the house and bought some scholastic materials for my children,” says the grand mother of six.