For her, the biggest value of volunteering at the Raben Apiary is making friends with bees. According to Grażyna, working at the Apiary gives you the opportunity to move to another world, it relaxes your mind and allows you to take a break from the current affairs. Grażyna's friends are impressed when they see photos of her with a frame full of honey and bees. When they ask about it, she is happy to answer their questions, and in the process, she encourages them to build houses for insects - especially bees which do not produce honey but are useful because they pollinate flowers, which then produce fruit and vegetables.

What he values most about being a volunteer is the opportunity to work at the hives, contact with the beekeeper taking care of the Apiary and completely new knowledge about bees. Thanks to the program, he discovered his passion for beekeeping, expanded his interest in this area and increased his awareness of the importance of all-year-long assistance we should provide to these beneficial pollinators.

The greatest value of volunteering at the Raben Apiary for him is the opportunity to combine work with passion, as well as the chance to integrate and work closely with other employees, he hasn’t had daily contact with before. He is motivated by the real effect of his work and the awareness that he is doing something good for the environment. His only fear is that he will get seriously infected with the bee fever virus :)

She was also keen to meet like-minded people with an equally positive attitude to bees, with whom she could share knowledge. The greatest value of the Drive to bee project for Sylwia is the possibility to explore the stages of bee life, how they function, and the process of making honey - she found it all extremely fascinating and interesting. Sylwia admits that her perception of the role of beekeeping has completely changed since joining the program. She shares her knowledge with her family who listen to her stories and watch her videos with great interest. Sylwia hopes that perhaps the project will go viral and similar ones will be implemented in other companies or organizations. She believes that the more people with a positive attitude towards bees, the more we all gain.

The greatest value of the project for Paweł is its educational aspect and the increase of general awareness about the nature around us. If we don't start taking care of it, nothing will change. According to Paweł, it is best to start changes from yourself and that’s the reason why, as a volunteer of the Raben Apiary, he develops, shares his knowledge with his family and friends and meets new people interested in beekeeping. He stresses that his priorities have also changed since joining the Drive to Bee program.

In his opinion, the greatest value of this action is learning about bees and their habits because gaining experience in looking after bees is a good introduction to starting your own mini apiary. Szymon’s daughters love hearing his accounts of the visits to the Apiary. They begin to understand that bees are our friends, and that the honey in the jar doesn't come from the store but from the hard work of insects that need to be looked after.

The greatest value of this project for Paweł is the opportunity to test himself as a beekeeper and to make a decision whether to set up his own hive. Paweł, we believe in you and your drive for wildlife. Don’t think about it too much, just go for it! Good luck!

Participating in this volunteer project is a natural consequence of his interests and an opportunity to learn something new. The greatest value of the project for him is the realization how important part of our immediate environment bees and their work are, and how responsible the mission they perform every day is. While volunteering at the Apiary, he understood how grim our future would be if bees disappeared from the ecosystem. Participation in this project raised many questions among Paweł's friends. During conversations, he tries to tell them how they can help bees in their daily work. In his opinion, it really doesn't take much effort and, as we all know, bees can repay you in a really sweet way ☺

Paulina hasn’t been disappointed - the bee world and the everyday life of these insects fascinated her enormously. She sees the greatest value in Raben's action in the possibility to be close to bees and gain knowledge about them. She also appreciates the sustainable way of keeping bees and the ecological approach visible in the activities of the Raben Apiary, which takes into account the future of insects and concern for their well-being. The Drive to Bee program has also had a positive impact on Paulina's garden, which has become more bee-friendly, as well as on her friends' knowledge about bees - she tells them stories of the Apiary on every possible occasion.