PROBLEM: 1.1 billion people in the world don’t have access to clean water. Almost all of these people are in the developed world. Lack of clean water causes disease and poverty. Water sanitation related disease like diarrhea claim the lives of 1.4 million children per year and 90% of these children are under the age of 5. In Africa alone lack of clean water claims the lives of 4,900 children every day. All these deaths are preventable with access to clean water. Lack of clean water does not only cause disease but affects productivity and thus poverty prevails. Women walk many miles for several hours to collect water (often dirty water) and children miss school because of water sanitation related diseases.
OUR MISSION: All for Africa intends to increase access to clean water through the implementation and delivery of sustainable clean water systems and to provide the education and training to encourage good sanitation and hygiene practices.
OUR PARTNERS:
Project: Water Sanitation
Country: Liberia
The trust from All For Africa will allow Face Africa to supply over 60 million liters of drinking water over 35 years.
Problem: In Liberia, years of civil war left the country’s infrastructure in ruins and for the majority of Liberians, ground water fetched from wells, streams, or rivers remain the primary source of drinking water.
Solution: Face Africa is installing water purification systems in Liberia based on a solar-powered nonporous membrane. Each system provides 20,000 liters of drinking water per day to 500 people.
Impact: The cost saving of $30,000 a year as result of receiving the Beneficiary Oil Palm Trust from All For Africa will allow FACE Africa to install two more water purification systems a year.
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PROBLEM: Education is a basic human right. Education is essential for the improvement of quality of life for individuals, for economic development and for peace and security. For many in Africa education is a dream. Poverty, HIV/AIDS and political instability have resulted in many children being left out of the education system. Without education their prospects in life are limited and the viscous cycle of poverty prevails.
OUR MISSION: All For Africa intends to identify regions underserved in primary and secondary education and to create educational opportunities for the continent’s poorest children, making education accessible in these regions and assuring the long-term sustainability of primary and secondary educational programs.
PARTNERS:
Project: Girls education—secondary education and vocational training
Country: Sierra Leone
The trust from All For Africa will allow Batonga to educate over 4000 girls and empower over 2000 women with skills over 35 years.
Problem: 300,000 children of primary school age in Sierra Leone are still out of school, and 60 percent of these are girls. The gender gap widens considerably for secondary schools. With or without an education, young women face tremendous challenges when trying to find a job. Sierra Leone has a female adult literacy level of only 24%.
Solution: Batonga, in collaboration with in-country NGO partner, the Forum for African Women Educationalists, currently supports scholarships for 58 girls. Also, in collaboration with in-country NGO partner, Children Associated with the War, Batonga is supporting 25 girls at a Vocational Training School that rescues girls from brothels and gives them job training.
Impact: The Beneficiary Oil Palm Trust from All for Africa would allow Batonga to expand the number of school girls supported annually from 104 to approximately 143 per year at the current cost per girl. The trust will also allow Batonga to expand the number of girls in Freetown supported at the vocational school annually from 25 to approximately 65 per year at the current cost per girl.
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Project: Girls’ School
Country: Democratic Republic of Congo
The trust from All For Africa will allow Georges Malaika Foundation to educate over 4000 girls over 35 years.
Problem: Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been victims of war that has ravaged the nation since 1998. As a result, Congolese women have been silenced for too long from participation in the decision making process of the DRC.
Solution: George Malaika Foundation’s foremost goal is to tackle illiteracy amongst girls by providing an elementary curriculum focused in mathematics and reading for the primary school girls. Once completed, they will move on to a secondary program where they will acquire more advanced academic and vocational skills, after each girl has successfully grasped the basics. Phase 1 of the project will yield school access to 150 girls per year, while completion of Phase 3 will increase that figure to 300 girls per year.
Impact: The primary impact of the Beneficiary Oil Palm Trust on the foundation itself is the guarantee of sustainability and guarantee of educational operations for our 300 girls.
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Project: School
Country: Liberia
The trust from All for Africa will allow the MacDella Cooper Foundation to educate over 6000 children over 35 years.
Problem: According to UNICEF, half a million children do not attend school in Liberia; two thirds of students are being taught by unqualified teachers; and armed conflict, HIV/AIDS and other diseases have orphaned an estimated 230,000 children.
Solution: MacDella Cooper Foundation’s program sponsors the education of 100 students, has partnered with Niapele project on feeding program that provides school lunches to 60 children and has an after-school tutoring for approximately 72 children. When the MCF
Academy is completed; it will educate, board, and feed 200 children.
Impact: The Beneficiary Oil Palm Trust from All For Africa guarantee education the 200 children per year at the MCF Academy.
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Project: Computer literacy for the blind
Country : Kenya
The trust from All for Africa will allow inABLE to educate over 8000 blind students over 35 years.
Problem: In Kenya, 4 to 5 blind students are forced to share one Braille book. Only 1 out of 10 blind primary-aged children is enrolled in school. There are no employment opportunities for the blind in Kenya.
Solution: inABLE’s computer program is providing access to unlimited resources online to students and teachers (at no cost). Currently, The Reading Spaces has 95 students and 21 teachers enrolled in our program.
Impact: The Beneficiary Oil Palm Trust from All for Africa will support approximately 278 students and 34 teachers will have access to unlimited resources each year.
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Project: Unity Building, primary education and adult literacy
Country: Sierra Leone
The trust from All for Africa will allow Shine on Sierra Leone to educate 15,000 children and empower 7000 adults with literacy skills over 35 years.
Problem: Sierra Leone suffers from an adult illiteracy rate of 80% and is charged with the responsibility of overcoming the need to rehabilitate 4,000 schools since the civil war ended in 2001.
Solution: The educational programs hosted in the Unity building are forward thinking life enhancement courses. The primary school classes positively affect the lives of 500 children per year and adult literacy program opens the doors to the dreams of 250 women per year.
Impact: The Beneficiary Oil Palm Trust from All for Africa will ensure a place of free child and adult education and community development over the next 35 years.
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OUR MISSION: All for Africa intends to collaborate with the private sector in the development and utilization of renewable energy resources to fill the “energy void” at the community level. Across Africa, power is scarce and costs to fund are even scarcer. A4A intends to address these problems by engaging in programs which will provide more efficient power sources to communities across the continent.
All for Africa believes that access to electricity in the 21st century should be available to every human being. And All for Africa believes that for rural Africa, the development and utilization of renewable energy resources is the key to filling the void until such time as a comprehensive electrical transmission and distribution grid exists for all Africans.
All for Africa, working with enterprises in both solar and hydro-power generation, is developing a project to bring one million watts of renewable energy to rural Africa. All for Africa’s Million Watt Initiative will cost approximately $10 million (approximately $10 per watt). It will bring an average of 10,000 watts to 100 communities with the electricity being provided through the installation of photovoltaic solar systems or through the development of attractive micro hydroelectric installations. The electricity will be provided free to the health and educational facilities within a community and with a small charge to private users to cover the operation and maintenance of the systems. With proper care the solar systems will last for well over twenty years while the micro hydro has the potential to produce electricity for one hundred years or longer. All carbon free!
PROBLEM: A significant population in Sub Saharan Africa is rural. The rural poor in Africa have been left without heath care due to shortages in health facilities, health supplies and health care workers. As a result, there are many preventable deaths and productivity is hampered and poverty results.
OUR MISSION: A4A intends to work in concert with health organizations across the continent to support and improve the health of Africans. Health programs will provide the education and resources needed to establish community level health care with participation by communities, health workers and civil leaders and by empowering those communities to take control of their health.
PARTNERS:
Project: Basketball Project & Clinic
Country: Southern Sudan
The trust from All for Africa will allow CSI to treat over 500,000 patients and empower over 10,000 adults with skills over 35 years.
Problem: Christian Solidarity International (CSI) is working to improve the quality of life for victims of genocidal conflict, including liberated slaves, in the borderlands between Southern Sudan and Darfur. CSI saves lives through emergency humanitarian aid. CSI assists in the rehabilitation of communities that have been devastated by war for over two decades.
Solution: CSI’s clinic treats about 125 patients per day, five days per week. In 2009, over 1,000 freed slaves received survival kits and food rations from CSI upon their return to Southern Sudan. CSI’s Basketball Project, including vocational training and health and hygiene workshops (including anti-Aids information) will serve over 500 young men and women in the Mabil area.
Impact: The Beneficiary Oil Palm Trust from All For Africa will have a major impact on enabling CSI to cover essential overhead costs in support of our field work. The tendency of many donors to give narrowly designated gifts restricts our ability to provide a sufficiently strong basis for field operations. The trust from trust eases this restriction and thereby opens the door to an expansion of the field work.
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PROBLEM: A large percentage of the youth in many parts of Africa is illiterate and lack any formal skills or training. A large number of these unskilled youth are women. Without skills, young women face great obstacles and bear a large burden of Africa’s poverty. Skills development is an important part of the solution to addressing poverty in Africa. Skills’ training enhances competitiveness, contributes to economic development, increases employment and, thus, helps reduce poverty.
OUR MISSION: All for Africa intends to provide educational programs encouraging open communication and the sharing of ideas and resources to better accomplish implementation of both social and private sector initiatives impacting sustainable economic growth at the local community level.
PARTNERS:
Project: Center for Women’s Empowerment
Country: Liberia
The trust from All For Africa will allow Youth Action International to empower over 9000 women with skills over 35 years
Problem: Due to years of civil war, women and girls below the age of 30 in the poorest communities in Monrovia have not had access to education, skills training and have no legal means of earning an income. Many of them work as commercial sex workers.
Solution: The Center for Women’s Empowerment uses basic education, alternative counseling, vocational training, and micro-credit loans to alleviate the negative impact the civil war has had on women in Liberia. 300 enroll in the Center every year.
Impact: With the $30,000 Beneficiary Oil Palm Trust, Youth Action International will be able to sustain the training of 300 women every year.
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OUR MISSION: All for Africa intends to improve the quality of life of the individuals and communities not currently served by traditional financial institutions through the provision of credit, savings instruments and other financial services.
Every day thousands of people struggle through a life of poverty in Africa. At All for Africa we believe there are no shortcuts to changing this reality but the fight must be fought. We also believe that winning the battle will require long-term sustainable solutions in addition to the short term aid that is most commonly available. The solutions may be found in oil-producing palm trees planted to create 30 years of much needed operational funding for important projects in health, education, clean water, micro-financing, community development and skills training; or perhaps the answer is in clean, renewable and sustainable energy being made available to communities that are without. Whether through oil palm trees, micro hydro or solar panels; All for Africa is here to bring the tools of development to the almost billion people that call Africa home.
Africare works to improve the quality of life for the people of Africa. Africare works in partnership with African communities to promote health and productivity. Africare places communities at the center of development — in the belief that only through strong communities can Africa feed itself, develop and manage its natural resources, provide adequate education and vocational training, address people’s needs for health care and disease prevention, achieve economic well-being and live in peace.
charity: water is a New York based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to bringing clean and safe drinking water into impoverished communities. In less than two years charity: water has funded more than 600 projects in eleven nations that will provide 250,000 people with clean water.
charity: water was a $25,000 Grant Recipient from our initial grant making program. This gift allowed charity: water to construct 10 wells in Malawi and supoprted operating costs of the organization. Look for our next round of grants to be available in 2010.
Project: School and rehabilitation program for paraplegic
Country: Uganda
Mission: To reach out to in compassion to the marginalized in the spirit of St. Francis.
Little Sisters of St. Francis is working to raise $15,000, which will be match by All for Africa, for the purchase of an Beneficiary Oil Palm Trust which was awarded in 2009. This trust will provide, beginning in 2012, approximately $30, 000 for operational funding per year for 30 years.
Miracle Corners of the World is a non-profit organization that empowers youth to become positive agents of change, to improve their lives and contribute to their communities. Based in New York, MCW serves youth worldwide through leadership training, community development, oral healthcare, and partner initiative programs.
All for Africa and Miracle Corners of the World (MCW) are collaborating on raising the funds for an oil palm trust which was awarded to MCW in 2009. This trust will provide, beginning in 2012, approximately $30, 000 for operational funding per year for 30 years.
Save Africa Inc is a non profit organization that promotes self-sufficiency, peer mentoring, and advocacy through education, health related programs, and Agriculture for Africans at home and in Sub-Saharan Africa.
SOLEM received a $30,000 grant in 2008 to fund the construction of a fresh water well, a grain grinding mill as well as an outdoors school in the village of Tanlarghin in Burkina Faso
In 1999, Ubuntu Education Fund was founded with the mission to support the students of Port Elizabeth, South Africa enter and succeed in higher education. Over the past ten years, they have developed a holistic model to support children and their families’ health and academic needs.
A group of students from Pace Academy, Georgia will be traveling to South Africa in June of 2009. These students will be blogging on our website, visiting Streetwires and learning how to make our All for Africa Cuff bracelet. Upon their return the Pace students will begin fundraising for a trust for one oil palm trust for Ubuntu.
Zara’s Center provides nourishment, psycho-social support, academic enrichment, medical prevention and intervention, school-to-work training, cultural and artistic development in community-based and home-centered initiatives to children impacted by AIDS, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
Zara’s Center’s International Board of Directors has set a 3-year goal of acquiring land and space in order to grow and refine programs – to meet the needs of children in Bulawayo, and (then) to replicate the program in other communities throughout Zimbabwe.
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