UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN BURUNDI. District of Gisuru, Nyamutetema Parish.

REPORT ON THE HONEY BUSINESS PROJECT- April 4th, 2012. 1. Background The Nyamutetema Parish of the United Methodist Church in Burundi (UMCBurundi) is located at Gisuru commune, the Province of Ruyigi, close to the Tanzanian border in the eastern part of Burundi. Nyamutetema is one of the parishes making up the district of Gisuru according with the organization of the UMC-Burundi. The parish counts 700 members among whom some are returnees from the former Burundian refugee camps settled in the western part of Tanzaniahe, the area of Kigoma, mainly at Kanembwa, Nduta, mtendeli and Karago refugee camps. Others are stayees who did not take flight but were forced to live as IDPs in the period of the crisis. All of these Christians live in peace with mutual acceptance and help. They live relying on sustainable agriculture and breeding as the main livelihood activities to recover from the misdeeds of the last war in their area. The population of the location still is in need of intervention from national and/or international development actors to recover from poverty or reduce it and progress towards meeting the MDGs; so are the Christians of the Nyamutetema parish of the UMC-Burundi. It is with this purpose that the Anglican Church of Magill, via Rev. Mike Russell, developed a partnership business with the Nyamutetema parish. Along with the honey business project, the Nyamutetema parish is invited every time to submit concerns for prayers points from the Anglican church of Magill.

2. Mission and statement of the Nyamutetema parish The mission and statement of the Nyamutetema parish are the one of the UMCBurundi. The UMC-Burundi is dedicated to widespread evangelism in Burundi through :
- Education and Christian,

intellectual, vocational and socio-cultural training

- Harmonious and complete development of the society 3. The honey business project progress The business started on September 2011, with funds release of 1,200,000 BIF from Rev. Michael Russel of the Anglican church of Magill on August 11th, 2011. The same time, prayer points to the Nyamutetema parish were associated. At Nyamutetema parish, the funds were used as shown below:

Identification and bought of the project site AugustSeptember: 400,000 BIF

Rental for the site Communal dues from October 2011 to August 2012: 600,000 BIF

Bought of the bee attics 10,000 BIF for one attic = 100,000 BIF for 10 attics

Transportation of the bee attics 50,000 BIF

Monitoring and Evaluation 50,000 BIF

3.1.

The Project Managing Team (PMT)

The PMT of the Honey business project is made up of 8 people: 1. The Head of the MT (HMT) : Rev. Daniel SINZOTUMA,Pastor Nyamutetema Parish : Mr Sylvestre NDAYIRAGIJE, BS Chemistry (FSMT): MsJeanine NDAHEZAGIWE,BS Public health

2. The Project Coordinator (PC)

3. Finance-Secretary of the MT

4. Communication

Officer (CO/MT) :Ir Felix MBONIGABA, Information

Technology 5. The Finance Manager (FM) : Mr Rubin NTAMAVYARIRO, BS Mathematics 6. The Technical Group (TG) composed of - The President of the TG (PTG) : Mr Berchimans NGENDAKUMANA Assistant Pastor, Nyamutetema Parish

- The Members of the TG (MTG) : Mr Etienne NTAKARUTIMANA, Bac Management : Mr Simeon HARERIMANA, Farmer 3.2 . The planting, harvesting and sale period. Normally, the bee attics installation started at the end of November 2011 and at least 10 bee attics were established at Mutonga hill where the Nyamutetema parish has a missionary branch in the nearby. This period took at least 2 months from November to December 2011. From January to August 2012 is the period of bees occupation of the attics. The bees occupation goes with their work of honey production. In September 2012, it will be a harvesting and a sale period. This period, customers are many and we hope to get considerable outputs.

4. Pictures of the project site Picture No1: Right is Mr Rubin NTAMAVYARIRO, Second is Rev Daniel SINZOTUMA, Third is Mr Simeon HARERIMANA and left is Mr Etienne NTAKARUTIMANA

Picture No 2: Some of the PMT at the project site

Picture No 3: Idem for Picture No2.

Picture No5:The Project Coordinator, Mr. BS. Sylvestre NDAYIRAGIJE

Picture No4: The Secretary, Ms. BS. Jeanine NDAHEZAGIWE

Picture No 5: Communication officer, Ir Felix MBONIGABA

5. Obstacles and expected outputs. While managing the honey business project, some obstacles appear. Among these there is the lack of enough means to practice modern breeding which led us to a traditional one. The risk may be a not very considerable output from the project. Another problem which occurs is the frequency of fire burning in the area, especially during the dry season in July, that may bring out the risk to the attics. In the management of this

project, it has been difficult to us to avoid the first obstacle as it is linked with financial means. But the second obstacle will be avoided by erasing all forests around the site project. This action will block all the fire to arrive into the site project. However, the output from the project is expected to be not very good but good with hope to increase for the second project. On September we expect to gain from the project at least 2,000,000 BIF; i.d a benefit of 800,000 BIF. We are already connected with 5 customers who are ready to consume all our production in September.