Leeat on her way to Tanzania
Leeat Weinstock, our newest MBAs Without Borders volunteer business advisor is on her way to Tanzania to work with HAI and Honeycare, two local businesses seeking support in financial management and strategic planning. Her six month assignment begins February 8th and we wish her the best of luck!
Founded in 2007, HAI is a cocoa exporting firm that links an association of 11,000 organically certified cocoa farmers to international markets. Its mission is to improve the Tanzanian cocoa sector and support the farmers while promoting social and environmental responsibility. It assists farmers implement techniques to efficiently cultivate cocoa, buys the cocoa from the farmers, transports and ships the cocoa, and enters into contracts with international cocoa buyers.
Honeycare Tanzania (HCAT) intervenes at all levels of the value chain for both honey and beeswax: it collects, transports, processes, promotes, packages and sells honey and beeswax. It mainly exports in bulk to Europe and the US but also serves the retail Tanzanian market. Going forward, HCAT plans to expand its range of products to reduce its dependence on honey, whose output is weather-dependent. Bee-candy, pollination services and comb foundations are the next value-added products, some of which are already being introduced.