Honey machine ups the game for women group

Naipandi Kanai, the head of a beekeeping women’s group in Kimana, Oloitoktok, pulls down a hoisting rope to hang a bee hive. INSET: A woman wearing a honey harvesting suit. [Gardy Chacha, Standard]

The Amboseli-Tsavo ecosystem has a primeval aura to it. Amboseli and Tsavo national parks straddle the Emali-Oloitoktok highway to the right and to the left respectively. The surrounding villages are inhabited by the Maasai. 

“We look after cattle, goats and sheep,” says Joyce Toporet, a resident of Elerai village, Kimana, Oloitoktok. “We are pastoralists.”