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The honey for Mission Honey is collected by Maasai tribal communities in Kenya from the regions of Mount Elgon, Rift Valley, and Ol Jogi.
The Maasai people collect the honey themselves. Most tribal communities have experienced honey collectors, as they have collected honey for their own use for generations.
Their collection process includes hanging hollowed-out logs in trees for the bees to build hives in and using dried cow dung in a tin smoker to calm the bees before collection. Honey is usually collected twice each year.
The Maasai use a “crush and screen” process to separate the honey from the honeycomb. Then, once it has been transported to our warehouse in Kenya, it is filtered to remove impurities and inspected by Kenyan authorities before it is shipped to the US. When it arrives at the RevelationMedia office in Richardson, Texas, it goes through one final stage of filtering. None of these stages uses fine filtering, and the honey is still considered “unfiltered.”
Yes, the honey is collected from the wild without the use of pesticides or other chemicals. It is certified organic within Kenya, but cannot be certified organic in the United States due to USDA regulations.
The Maasai communities we partner with benefit from the sale of their honey twofold:
They are paid immediately upon the collection of their honey, which gives them the funds to send their children to school and to fix their school buildings.
RevelationMedia uses a portion of the profits from Mission Honey’s online sales to translate more iBIBLE content into the Maasai communities’ languages and send it, along with iBIBLE tablet kits, to pastors and missionaries working among the tribes for evangelism and discipleship.
RevelationMedia pays $100 to $125 USD per 20-liter bucket (about five gallons) of honey upon collection, which is significantly more than local wholesalers pay. We also supply the tribes with the buckets and pay for transportation of the honey to our warehouse.
Our partnership with the Maasai tribes of Kenya is only the beginning of Mission Honey’s ministry. If this partnership proves fruitful to both RevelationMedia and the Maasai, we hope to continue the program in Kenya as well as expand our partnerships to include tribes in neighboring African countries.
The honey for Mission Honey is collected by Maasai tribal communities in Kenya from the regions of Mount Elgon, Rift Valley, and Ol Jogi.
Yes, the honey is collected from the wild without the use of pesticides or other chemicals. It is certified organic within Kenya, but cannot be certified organic in the United States due to USDA regulations.
RevelationMedia pays $100 to $125 USD per 20-liter bucket (about five gallons) of honey upon collection, which is significantly more than local wholesalers pay. We also supply the tribes with the buckets and pay for transportation of the honey to our warehouse.
The Maasai people collect the honey themselves. Most tribal communities have experienced honey collectors, as they have collected honey for their own use for generations.
Their collection process includes hanging hollowed-out logs in trees for the bees to build hives in and using dried cow dung in a tin smoker to calm the bees before collection. Honey is usually collected twice each year.
The Maasai use a “crush and screen” process to separate the honey from the honeycomb. Then, once it has been transported to our warehouse in Kenya, it is filtered to remove impurities and inspected by Kenyan authorities before it is shipped to the US. When it arrives at the RevelationMedia office in Richardson, Texas, it goes through one final stage of filtering. None of these stages uses fine filtering, and the honey is still considered “unfiltered.”
The Maasai communities we partner with benefit from the sale of their honey twofold:
They are paid immediately upon the collection of their honey, which gives them the funds to send their children to school and to fix their school buildings.
RevelationMedia uses a portion of the profits from Mission Honey’s online sales to translate more iBIBLE content into the Maasai communities’ languages and send it, along with iBIBLE tablet kits, to pastors and missionaries working among the tribes for evangelism and discipleship.
Our partnership with the Maasai tribes of Kenya is only the beginning of Mission Honey’s ministry. If this partnership proves fruitful to both RevelationMedia and the Maasai, we hope to continue the program in Kenya as well as expand our partnerships to include tribes in neighboring African countries.
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