Thank you All For Africa supporters for wonderful 2009.   With your support we are making a great strides with our  Palm Out  Poverty Campaign.

Here is an update on the progress if our oil palm trees.

In 2008 All for Africa planted the first oil palm seeds in Ghana, West Africa. These seeds represented the first crops in All for Africa’s campaign to plant one million oil palm trees on approximately 17,000 acres of land in Africa. These germinated seeds or seedlings were planted in Nkwanta district in the Volta region.

These seedlings were planted in small black polybags. The polybags were kept well watered prior to the commencement of planting. This stage is known as the pre-nursery stage. These polybags were put under a shelter for 3 months. After 3 months, these plants were moved from the shelter to the field replanted into larger polybags in a specially prepared field nursery. The batches of seeds that were planted in October 2008 will be planted in their permanent field locations in the next few months.

In 2009 All for Africa in collaboration with its corporate partner, SG Sustainable Oils have managed to plant an additional 150,000 seeds at our Volta region location. The first production of palm oil is scheduled for the 4th quarter of 2012.  To date the nursery operation in Ghana has created nearly two dozen jobs.

In 2009, we also had a successful International Poverty Week.  The week was marked with various  fundraiser events  in New York city and around the country.  We were have also grown our Associate board.  We  are pleased to announce that we have five new Associate  board members.

In 2010 we look forward to All For Africa ’s feature in  Fortune Magazine in March,  the monthly Africa After work mixers, All for Africa’s participation in the New York marathon and  International Palm Out Poverty  Week !

Thank you again for a wonderful 2009.  Happy holidays and prosperous New Year

Bruce Wrobel,

Executive Director