built collectively
Through partnerships in Guatemala, Uganda, Honduras, Brazil, and Canada, our new multi-country initiative focuses on beekeeping cooperatives in support of climate-resilient livelihoods, environmental stewardship, and community-led development.
At its heart, this initiative is a reminder that sustainable futures are built collectively.
Over the past year, our team has been exploring how we can support communities in new and meaningful ways.
Most recently, we visited local beekeeping cooperatives in Guatemala to learn directly from producers about sustainable honey production, cooperative management, market access, and opportunities for growth.
Many beekeeping cooperatives currently operate with 12–15 hives, providing supplemental income for families. Producers shared that reaching 50 hives is often the threshold where beekeeping becomes a more stable and economically sustainable livelihood. 50 hives, 50 years. A fitting coincidence for our organization that has always believed in building little by little through shared effort.
Like many of our partnerships, sustainable beekeeping sits at the intersection of livelihoods, environmental stewardship, local leadership, and long-term resilience.
For 50 years, Change for Children’s work has been rooted in partnerships, building meaningful solutions together over time. In many ways, the bee has become an unexpected but fitting symbol of that work. It is small, collaborative efforts that strengthen entire communities working collectively toward lasting change.
The Legacy Project is about:
⬢ Supporting community-led income generation
⬢ Strengthening climate resilience
⬢ Biodiversity and environmental stewardship
⬢ Investing in cooperative leadership and local knowledge
⬢ Building sustainable futures together
Meaningful change, 50 years worth, is built collectively, carefully, and sustainably. Like a hive.
among the hives
Recently, a small group of Change for Children supporters joined us in Guatemala and stood among the hives in Santa Clara, learning firsthand from local beekeepers about honey production, cooperative management, and the growing role beekeeping can play in supporting livelihoods. Between the hum of the hives and conversations shared while suited up under the Guatemalan sun, the visit offered a deeper understanding of the patience, care, and collective effort behind this work and helped inspire the direction of our 50th Anniversary Legacy Project.
