VOA慢速英语 美国学生将蜂蜜项目带入迦纳

　　US Students Bring Honey Project to Ghana

　　美国学生将蜂蜜项目带入迦纳

　　This is the VOA Special English Development Report.

　　Some American students from Florida are bringing the business of beekeeping to farmers in a community in Ghana. The program, called the Honey Project, not only gives the students a chance to own and manage a business. It also gives them a chance to help ease poverty in Agogo through beekeeping and the sale of honey.

　　There are plenty of wild honeybees around Agogo, but there was no established market. A businessman named Nathan Burrell and some of his colleagues came up with the idea during a business trip to Agogo three years ago.

　　NATHAN BURRELL: "It was the ability to effect change and impact the lives of the people. As an entrepreneur and a business person you normally look at market movement. You look at what will sell and what's the most profitable venture to take on. And trust me, it wouldn’t have been honey. But it was the fact that the honey had an opportunity to really change the lives of those people and provide them with a living wage."

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