Leleshwa Bees
Bee the change
Treat yourself to all-natural, handmade products as you help women in rural Kenya to rebuild their lives
Goal: 1000 pre-orders pledged by World Bee Day (May 2025)
Current progressGoal 700
How to support
Help us hit any of our goals as we get off the ground:
Pledge a pre-order: We need people or orgs who can pledge pre-orders. Every order (whether 5 or 500) helps!
Donate: Help a woman get on her feet with hives and gear
Partner: Join us in growing the mission - we are looking for sponsors and distribution channels
Website under maintenance (while we focus on the bees!)
Pre-orders: Feel free fill out the Pre-order form or send in your pre-order to karis@wezesha-foundation.org
Donations: Can be made via website or by Venmo to @karis12 (mention Bee The Change in description)
Partnerships: Reach out to Karis at karis@wezesha-foundation.org
Our products
The Original collection
Our original, all-natural handmade beeswax lip balm
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100% all natural organic beeswax lipbalm - Peppermint
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100% all natural organic beeswax lipbalm - minty with a hint of rose
The Leleshwa Lush collection
Premium skincare with an added boost
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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All-purpose healing balm for hand and lips
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100% natural DEET-free insect repellant that nourishes your skin
Leleshwa bees (coming soon)
Premium grade all-natural raw honey, pollen, and propolis
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Enjoy the curing properties of propolis
Our purpose
With bees, impact multiplies
To you: Bringing the healing benefits of pure and raw bee products, with integrity
Did you know honey is the third most faked food in the world? Around one third of honey distributed worldwide (up to 76% in the US) is adulterated or fake.
The rest is often completely stripped of its benefits through overprocessing and pasteurization
Our bee products are 100% natural and authentic, with traceable pollen tags—and all the disease-fighting nutrients—retained in our honey. Reach out to us at any time and we’ll tell you the name of your beekeeper - a woman who is empowering her life, thanks to you.
We are even looking into setting up a livestream so that you can watch the hives grow with us!
Did you know that many commercial lip balms make dry lips worse?
To Karasani, Kenya: Partnering to rebuild lives and communities through bees
Welcome to the informal settlement of Karasani. It’s a beautiful, vibrant, and full of incredible people, but it’s also home to some of the worst economic, health, and educational outcomes you might picture.
They hives offer a brand new path. We work with women and girls escaping hunger, poverty, and abuse as they rebuild their lives.
Did you know that beekeeping is associated with longer lifespan, according to a 2015 NIH study?
To our global ecosystem: Thoughtfully and sustainably restoring the environment
Global bee populations are in decline, threating pollination and putting global food security at risk. Without bees, our ecosystem would collapse.
However, where you build matters - to support species balances, honeybees are best propogated where they are indigenous, including this region in Kenya.
Fostering bee populations is priority for the United Nations —they designated May 20th World Bee Day!
We believe in locally-driven initiatives, sustainable development over dependency cycles, and bringing together as many stories and skills as we can into a whole greater than the sum of its parts.
By donating or buying our products,
you become part of the story too.
Our partners
