CWF is developing an api-tourism project at TAWIRI’s Njiro Forest in Arusha — integrating eco-tourism with traditional beekeeping. Api-tourism connects visitors with the ecological, nutritional, and medicinal dimensions of bees and bee products, while generating income for local practitioners.
Once established at TAWIRI, the model will serve as a field school for Mswakini Village — enabling community members to establish high-standard apitourism as a conservation and income-generation tool. The project aligns with Tanzania’s National Tourism Policy and National Beekeeping Policy.
This follows CWF’s original beekeeping project at Mswakini Primary School, initiated in 2020 — which remains the Foundation’s first and most enduring community investment.