These Two Kids Never Dreamed They'd Be Able To Start A Business In Their Neighborhood

I doubt welcome back everybody listen having access to local healthy food and produce isn't a luxury that everybody in our country has so when a farmers market popped up in one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in Orlando one man set out to tackle the problem by gathering a group of teams and turning them into entrepreneurs please welcome Christian Chris and the man behind the plan Reginald burrows so Christie you live in what's called a food desert explain to everybody who doesn't know what that is what it is a food desert is an area or a neighborhood that doesn't have access to fresh foods and what black bean honey does is we bring the honey that is a great substitute for sugar because the kids they wake up in the morning and instead of having a healthy hearty breakfast they go to the corner store and they buy sugary foods that is not going to help them learn good in school were you shocked at how successful the business has become yes I was very shocked I mean I used to go to school and everything like how you gonna sell hanging in the hood all right all right I started to feel discouraged like wow how am I really gonna sell honey inside my neighborhood then mr. residental Burroughs told me right here he told me home everyone has a site but not everyone has a vision and that and I have me believe in black bean honey more and more every day Wow so Reginald one of the goals of black bee is to teach kids business skills tell us about that sure so black bee honey was born either Parramore Kids Zone it's a organization within the Paramore community when the lowest socio-economic areas in Orlando Florida and what Parramore Kids Zone does it provides employment opportunities it helps to lower the juvenile crime rape and reduce teen pregnancy within the community so this was another opportunity for me to instill some type of education within the youth of the community so when they graduate from high school go off to college come back they don't have to worry about looking for a job they can start their own business okay let's get a little background here why do you all get the honey from sure there is actually an apiary which is a fancy term for a honey farm and high springs it's a little north of Gainesville gather the honey that bring it back to the community they jar it they label it and they bring it out to the market every Saturday to sell really how did this start for you how did you first start selling honey so it was about September August of 2017 and mr. Reginald Burroughs here he came to us and he was trying to assign us to after-school jobs and he came to us and he asked us who he wanted to work for and we told him that we actually didn't want to work for anyone but ourselves so he challenged us and so began black bees honey he took us to classes and soft skills hard skills and like basically learning how to talk to people what they want to hear and what they don't want to hear okay so how do you sell the honey is it in stores do you go door-to-door is it online what is that the farmers market except the farmers market yes yes take our honey from the Callahan neighborhood sending to the farmers market selling on Saturday for about four hours from about 9:00 to 1:00 o'clock yeah he said it first our opening day we saw two thousand dollars worth done what are you hoping is next for black bee honey Steve what am I envision for the company is this I wanted to grow and want to expand the money that we make office it gets reinvest into the neighborhood to the pair of more kids don't like I said they provide scholarships and educational opportunities for the youth of the community and they're gonna graduate soon they're gonna go off to college and I want to bring in another subset of youth to learn the same skills that they learn and keep the business going out without way everybody learn it's the same skill set yeah I think I see the beauty of this is first of all for people who don't understand how the hood operates first of all to simply give a child a direction a vision a dream something to shoot for most kids in neighborhoods if you if you allow that if you show them how to dream and show them how to dream can actually come to fruition they want to do that when you provide an opportunity like this it does so much more and then other kids notice it and they want to be a part of it so I think that's what you're laying the groundwork for something that's gonna be really tremendous I know you're gonna get this product online I know you're gonna get it matter of fact we got a surprise for you so here's what deal is we reached out to some people I know call I gourmet calm it's America's leading online specialty food and gift website and they want to help turn you into a national brand so that's why starting today black bee honey is available on their website for anybody in America to purchase starting today so if you head over to a gourmet calm right now ten percent of all sales all sales on the entire website will go back to black bee honey without throw some money in your pocket guess all you got to do when you make a purchase until I go make our end of the cold bees be easy a checkout and they'll be getting 10% of all sales today off the website we'll be right back [Applause] [Music] you like that video you want more well you're in luck because I got more press that subscribe button or click on this list and you can see all the great Steve Harvey YouTube videos that you want you ain't doing nothing right now just do me a favor just press the damn button

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Length: 6min 19sec (379 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 11 2018