LEAGUE CITY – There are 30 wooden bee colonies neatly arranged behind a modest League City home. To neighbors, they might look like a hobby. To their keeper, Jerome “Jay” Feldt, they are classrooms. They are meals. They are possibility.

Feldt runs Edukos Honey, a four-year-old nonprofit with an ambitious mission: turn honey into education for children thousands of miles away in Rwanda.

“I don’t take a dollar from this,” Feldt says, standing beside a row of white bee boxes alive with a soft hum. “Every bit of profit goes straight to kids who need it.”

The idea sprouted years ago, after Feldt traveled to Rwanda and saw firsthand how many children were being turned away from school because their families couldn’t afford fees or even daily meals. Some had never set foot in a classroom. Others showed up hungry, listless, or sick.

So he returned home with a plan. If he could raise bees and sell honey — real, local honey that didn’t need sugary additives to taste good — then he could rewrite the futures of the children he’d met. Today, those bees are doing exactly that.

Edukos has already helped fund a brand-new, five-room school in the village of Ruhongo, a place where many kids once had nowhere to learn at all. The organization also pays school fees for children who otherwise would have been turned away.

And the food program? That’s made a visible difference.

“Some of the kids used to have gray hair, which can be a sign of malnutrition,” Feldt says. “They’re healthier now. They have energy. Their teeth are cleaner. They’re smiling.”

Feldt covers all equipment costs himself. Friends pitch in by helping with hive labor. Every jar sold — from classic raw honey to pecan honey, creamed honey, and hot honey — funds the mission. Pop-ups across League City and generous partnerships with local businesses have helped the effort grow faster than Feldt imagined.

He’s grateful for every beekeeper lesson learned the hard way: how to dodge the sting of a queenless colony, how local blooms change the flavor in each season, how Texas heat demands constant vigilance. “The bees teach you humility,” he jokes. “They always win.”

What drives him isn’t the honey, though — it’s the promise behind it. Children who once faced barriers now wake up eager for a school day waiting for them. Lunch is served. Uniforms fit. Futures feel real.

“Education changes countries,” Feldt says. “All we’re doing is giving the kids a chance to get there.”

The League City bees don’t know it, but they are building a whole generation’s future, one jar at a time.