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ALL FOR AFRICA PARTNERS WITH FORTUNE MAGAZINE

Special Section on the New Economic Landscape of Africa New York, NY, March 8, 2010 – As the landscape for economic growth on the African continent changes, All for Africa partnered with FORTUNE Magazine to tell this story. The section represents the first time that FORTUNE has highlighted economic development on the African continent. The section features companies that are achieving success in developing natural resources, mobile telecommunications, finance, high-end agriculture and manufacturing; all with a focus on doing business with a comprehensive approach to sustainability... Read More

News from Africa

HEALTH Glaxo offers free malaria research, vaccine nears GlaxoSmithKline PLC hopes to seek approval by 2012 for its experimental malaria vaccine and said on Wednesday it would seek only a small profit and ensure it is widely available in hard-hit countries. AFRICA: AIDS vaccine programme comes home In what is being hailed as a boost for African involvement in AIDS research, Uganda has been selected to host the African AIDS Vaccine Programme (AAVP), formerly based in Geneva, Switzerland. Read more ENVIRONMENT Southern Africa Moves to Safeguard Groundwater Southern... Read More

4 New Beneficiaries for All for Africa

Barry Segal, founder of the Segal Family foundation, has joined our board.  With generous support from his foundation, we are pleased to announce 4 new All For Africa beneficiaries; MacDella Cooper Foundation (Liberia), Nibakure Children’s Village (Rwanda), Kip Keino Foundation (Kenya) and Tanzania Rift Valley Children’s Village (Tanzania). MacDella Cooper Foundation, Monrovia , Liberia This year, the MacDella Cooper foundation will open the first school of its kind in post-war Liberia that will offer free education, including room and board, to 200 students in Monrovia.... Read More

Letter From the Founder

Dear All for Africa friends and supporters! Thank you again for all your support in 2009.  With your continued support our Palm Out Poverty Initiative will allow 700 community projects/organizations in Africa to have greater long term impact by providing 30 years of operational funding. As we all know, many such projects/organizations constantly struggle to meet operational expenses thus affecting their stability and capacity to provide valuable services to the communities they seek to assist.  Our POP Initiative will avoid the “here today, gone tomorrow problem of... Read More

Letter From the Founder

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.... Read More

News From the Continent

HEALTH HIV infections and deaths fall as drugs have impact Greater access to anti-retroviral drugs has helped cut the death toll from HIV by more than 10% over the past five years, latest figures show.  READ MORE LESOTHO: Mountain clinics bring HIV services to remote villages Isolated mountain communities hard hit by HIV and AIDS in Lesotho have begun to reap benefits from the overhaul of nine healthcare clinics over the past four years. READ MORE Researchers, Aid Groups Optimistic About Malaria Fight With a promising new anti-malaria vaccine in its final stage of... Read More

Animals Adopted by Europeans and Gifted to Local Madagascans

Meet Henri. Slender, easygoing, with surprising light hair for an African. Henri lives a quiet life on the island of Madagascar in a typical countryside household. What distinguishes him from the others is that he’s been adopted by a European benefactor and given to local Madagascarans. Don’t be mistaken, Henri is zebu. Since 1996, the ZOB – or Zebu Overseas Board – provides Malagasy families with many animals like Henri, helping them to make ends meet. In a country where 70% of the population lives with less than a dollar everyday, owning a zebu is as much of a symbol... Read More

Byrant University Students Helping AFA with Fundraising & Outreach!

As students from Bryant University in Smithfield, RI our team (Christy Talmont, Bobby Kelm, Nick Ribeiro, Nick Bayliss, Regina Abdella, and Naa Amerley Sackey) has been assigned a service learning project in our Management 200 class taught by Dr. Eileen Kwesiga. The purpose of this project is to help a non-profit organization with their outreach and fundraising. As a team, we came together and decided that we wanted to work with All for Africa.  Through collaborating with Diane MacDonald, Director of Operations, we developed several ideas for fundraisers and plans that would... Read More

Foundation Stone Laid For Georges Malaika School

“I traveled to the Congo with All For Africa grantee Noella Coursaris Musunka and Khaliah Ali, daughter of Muhammad, to attend the ceremony where the first stone for the Georges Malaika Foundation school was to be laid. Our trip also happened to coincide with the 35th Anniversary of Khaliah’s father’s fight versus George Foreman (The Rumble in the Jungle). I knew that the moment would be extremely significant for Noella and the GMF team after all of their hard work publicizing and raising funds for the school.  I didn’t realize, however, how significant... Read More

All For Africa has 5 Runner slots at the NYC Marathon

All For Africa has 5 Runner slots   available for the upcoming NYC Marathon on Nov. 1, 2009! To be able to get into one of these coveted slots the runner will need to be able to generate  a minimum of $2500 in pledges for All for Africa.  We have a website all set up so that each  runner can create a web page and donors can make direct donations to their page. All For Africa wants to support you!   We will help you create and maintain your pledge page websites as well as promote pledging through our various resources. We are here to help you in whatever capacity you... Read More