From two piglets to a motorbike workshop 🏍️ When Batte was 16, job opportunities were hard to find in his rural Ugandan community. But with support from Ripple Effect, he found a new path forward. Through our youth skills project, Batte: 🌾 Trained in sustainable farming and financial management ⚙️ Completed a year-long apprenticeship as a motorcycle mechanic 💰 Joined a savings group and began putting money aside 🐖 Raised and sold two piglets to help fund his future He launched a motorbike repair business with his brother from their living room. Today, Batte repairs seven bikes a day, earns a steady income, and continues to save each week. His next goal? To move to a busier location so he can grow his business and reach more clients. This is what youth-led change looks like - it all starts with opportunity. https://rippleeffect.org/blog/two-piglets-kickstart-a-motorbike-workshop/ (fb)

This World Bee Day, we’re inspired by a powerful truth: bees and farmers are saving each other. In East Africa, pollinators are more than honey-makers - they’re essential partners in restoring broken food systems. But habitat loss, toxic pesticides, monoculture, and the climate crisis are pushing them to the edge. At Ripple Effect, we’re working with smallholder farmers who are turning this crisis into a regenerative opportunity. 🍯 In Ethiopia, Takele transformed just 0.25 hectares with 25 beehives, boosting both income and biodiversity. 🌾 In Zambia, Grace’s bees now yield 160kg of honey annually - a vital lifeline after drought destroyed her maize crop. These are not isolated stories. Across our programmes, beekeeping is restoring degraded land, strengthening food security, and providing climate-smart livelihoods. This is how regeneration begins: not with exploitation, but with community, ecology, and resilience. 🐝 Join the movement. Support farmer-led solutions. Let nature nourish us all. 👉 Read more: https://rippleeffect.org/blog/how-bees-and-farmers-are-saving-each-other-from-a-broken-food-system (fb)