Mercy Hands Europe

Mercy Hands Europe focuses its activities on disaster-affected regions. It is active in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, and Ethiopia with staff on the ground. It also relies on local organizations to implement projects, leveraging their specific contextual expertise and needs assessments to guide their work.

One project aims to revive the beekeeping sector in the region, but bees face a lack of forage and biodiversity due to the project area being affected by war. Additionally, beekeepers depend on queen bees imported from abroad, which are essential for honey production.

The project involves cultivating flowering plants in a nursery with a local partner, the International Agricultural Cooperation Organisation (IACO). These plants will then be distributed to beneficiaries and are vital to sustaining their beekeeping activities.

Another project focuses on establishing an artificial insemination center to produce local queen bees, strengthening the independence of the beekeeping sector in Al-Bab. It also includes training for 50 additional beneficiaries (25 women and 25 men) in beekeeping.

This project contributes to combating climate change by preserving bees, which play a central role in ecosystems severely impacted by the war in the country.

What was the money used for?
Training sessions were organized for 50 local beekeepers, along with the creation of three beekeeping cooperatives.

The LE PAL NATURE FOUNDATION actively supports the association’s beekeeping project for 2026, titled “Bee Guardians Ethiopia” focused on sustainable beekeeping and biodiversity protection in Syria. These initiatives help strengthen sustainable beekeeping practices while promoting biodiversity conservation in the Syrian region.

Project 2026:

The Bee Guardians Ethiopia project: protecting local bees and pollinators and restoring honeybee habitats aims to improve living conditions for local bees in the Bibugn Woreda, in the Amhara Region, where land degradation and a decline in floral resources are undermining ecosystems.

Through this project, Mercy Hands Europe, in partnership with Agri Service Ethiopia, aims to promote environmentally friendly beekeeping practices, preserve local nectar-producing resources and train 50 beekeepers to act as local advocates for the protection of pollinators and biodiversity.

Did you know ?

The beekeeping project “Bee Guardians Ethiopia” by the association, supported by the Le PAL NATURE FOUNDATION, aims to promote sustainable beekeeping while protecting biodiversity in Syria, through the training of 50 beekeepers and the creation of three beekeeping cooperatives.