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Beekeeping program giving young men in youth justice a second chance
Claire Moore’s bees are usually busy collecting honey at her farm in central Victoria, but for the past 10 weeks more than 20,000 of them have been at the Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre.
Key points:
- A new beekeeping program is hoping to aid the rehabilitation of men in the youth justice system
- The five-week program teaches students the fundamentals of commercial beekeeping
- The program hopes to offer full-time employment for students on parole
Inside the centre, a handful of young men are learning the art of beekeeping.
Ms Moore is the apiarist behind Sweet Justice, a new program hoping to aid the rehabilitation of disadvantaged youth.
“We’re teaching up to a Certificate III in beekeeping within the justice system so our young people are…
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