Better Globe tree planting project in Sosoma, Kenya

Better Globe tree planting project in Sosoma, Kenya
Better Globe is preparing to start a major tree planting project in a 60.000 hectare semi arid area not suitable for food production in Sosoma. Both an “Environment Impact Assessment Study” and a “Water Drilling Study” has been conducted as part of the ongoing preparations. The first trees to be planted are expected to be Mukau and Acacia Senegal.
Child Africa has already donated four 10.000 litre water tanks to a disadvantaged school, Mboty Primary School, close by.
Better Globe members are expected to be able to see their trees grow on the plantation through the use of designated coordinates in Google Earth.
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Receiving by giving
Better Globe are by many rightfully associated with the message of books, videos and other material about the law of attraction, the most famous being "The Secret". By encompassing charity, philanthrocapitalism and social investing through tree donations, water donations, donations to Child Africa, donations to micro finance for poor African farmers, socially responsible green investments and other support in Africa, Better Globe brings a new concept of hope for poor Africans. Join Better Globe and become active in the donation program and you are truly embracing the movement needed to prevent hunger and poverty in Africa. In Better Globe you will always be receiving by giving
to those who need it the most!

The uncertainty of charity and donations

The uncertainty of charity and donations

All over the world when charity is mentioned, people ask many different questions, often similar to these:
“Does the money I give reach the poor people in need?”
“How much is being used on administration fees?”
“How can I know that the money I give get there?”
“Is it not eaten up by corruption anyway?”
“Isn’t it just a waste of money?”

In fact, people have good reasons to ask these very questions. It is a well accepted truth, even in the majority of the big and well known charities today;
most of the money is simply NOT GETTING THERE.

In order for any of the donated money to reach the end user, all big and well meaning charity organizations MUST spend most of the money in administration.
Every organization has to hire good and competent people who are well-paid and also have to travel a lot
to do their job, which is necessary. These activities COST MONEY and that money will have to be deducted from whatever is “donated” to the charity organization.

On top of that, in every country where help is needed, corruption works like a cancer and a lot of money is
lost in more ways than one. To make the list complete, charity workers are normally NOT business people, with a mind of sustainability in what they do, even though they often like to think so.

To prove this, let us ask ONE SIMPLE QUESTION:
“What if all donors stop giving money to a charity today, what will happen to the organization tomorrow?”

The answer is:
“The charity will go bankrupt or have to close up”.

The reason being:
“There is no sustainability in any charity organization, which is totally based on donors funding”.

On the other hand, if charity was based on profitable and sustainable business ventures, which could
GIVE BACK some profit to the donors as a sort of “return on investment” (ROI), the charity itself would quickly become sustainable. This has proven to be the case in some microfinance banking, which is well known for success rates of more than 97%.

Better Globe - A new way of giving!
The World’s Best Sustainable “Charity” based on profitable business ventures

Better Globe has created a new holistic way of giving which they have called: "The World’s Best Sustainable “Charity” based on profitable business ventures". The Better Globe profitable business venture is based on a new socially responsible green investment approach.

No other charity concept does so much good for so little and on top of that: Earns you 6.5 times more money than what you contributed with in your donation!

This way, everybody can afford to help prevent poverty in Africa and help save the environment at the same time. Everybody can keep on doing this for the rest of their life, because they get a good interest on the money every time they give their support through Better Globe.

Here are some of the good things you are able to do through Better Globe's socially responsible green investment "charity":

1. Through tree planting you help fight global warming and help save both the local and global environment.
2. Give work to poor people on the plantations.
3. Give poor farmers in dry areas much needed water.
4. Help poor farmers sustain and improve their living through microfinance loans.
5. Give poor children food, education and a future.

HOW BETTER GLOBE “CHARITY” WORKS:

On a monthly basis you buy a “Better Globe Donation Package” at only € 49, which includes:

a) 2 Donation Trees, which you donate to poor farmers and underprivileged communities through Better Globe.
b) 500 litres of clean water, delivered directly to poor farmers and communities through Better Globe.
c) € 1.50 is given directly to Child Africa for school building and education of children.
d) € 1.50 is given directly to microfinance banking and loans to assist poor farmers with productivity.
e) 2 Better Globe Trees, which you own for 20 years and earn very good interests on.

The administration of these donations are done FREE by Better Globe and are documented with write ups, photos or video so you can see what is done yourself.

How good is the "charity saving program”?

If you buy ONE “Better Globe Donation Package” every month for one year, you have paid a total of € 588 over the whole year and obtained a total of 24 trees that you profit from. At the end of the 5th year, and the following 14 years, you will get paid 15% interest each year
(= € 54) based on the total of € 360 (trees are valued at € 15, and € 15 X 24 = € 360), which was the price of the 24 Better Globe trees you have bought the first year (through your 12 Better Globe Donation Packages).

After 20 years, when your trees are fully grown, you will get minimum € 150 per tree, a total of € 3600 for 24 trees. This is IN ADDITION to the 15% interest you got on your trees over the last 15 years.

This all totals to a minimum of € 4410. Deduct the buying price of € 588, and you have the rewarding sum
of € 3822 IN MINIMUM PROFIT on the 12 Donation Packages you purchased during your first year.

If you continue with your donations every year, € 3822 is the minimum profit you will have every year after the 20th year. Imagine what could happen if you buy MANY Better Globe Donation Packages each month, or if you invest in Better Globe Trees on top of your donations?

This is called “Doing Good AND Making Money” through socially responsible green investments!

Better Globe consider this to be the best way to give sustainable help to Africa in the long run, by basing all help on sustainable and transparent development of socially responsible business. This will truly give long term help and sustainability to the big numbers of poor farmers on the African continent. Eventually poverty will be eradicated for all the farmers you, me and Better Globe are able to reach out to. Some of the long term effects for Africa are reduction in desertification and soil erosion, increased food production and availability of food, better climate, social stability, to mention a few.

Learn more about Better Globe and see how you can start receiving by giving your support to Africa!

Log on to www.betterglobe.com/14085 and join!

Email me: koskatsar@how2sponsor.com

Better Globe, The World’s Best Sustainable “Charity” based on profitable business ventures. Better Globe and Africa need your help too - the sooner the better!

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Go green with Better Globe in Africa by Doing good AND Making Money through tree planting and socially responsible green investments and "charity"!

A Better Globe by Doing Good

The Better Globe Group Eradicating poverty in Africa through profits, by helping the poor to become self-sustained. We want to make;

A Better Globe by Doing Good Welcome to the corporate site of "The Better Globe Group" of African companies, which is doing business in Africa based on the idea that if we ever want to eradicate poverty in Africa we have to concentrate our effort on these 3 areas: Forestry, to protect the environment Without massive forests being planted there will soon be no farmeland and as a consequence very few farmers left in Africa and the global warming will claim disastrous results, all over the world. Microfinance for Agriculture Approximately 80 % of Africans are poor farmers and in order to get out of poverty they have to, not only be able to survive, but make more money. We will provide money to poor farmers from our Microfinance bank from 2010. Children education Without free primary education of the children, no country in Africa can ever manage to eradicate poverty. We will therefore support the NGO Child Africa building schools for children. At About Our Companies you will be able to read about our present companies in Africa. We hope you will enjoy reading about The Better Globe Group. We are a group of companies probably representing today’s most powerful concept to fight poverty, improve the environment and make this world a better place to live, for this and future generations.

Projects The first 100,000 tree seedlings from investor trees are under development in Kenya Published: 10th October 2006 It is hard work at the tree nursery in Kenya this month, as we are developing tree seedlings for 100,000 trees to be planted out in November and December this year. These trees are the first planting at our site at Kiambere Lake in Kenya. After these trees have been planted, we will continue developing seedlings at this and other tree nurseries in the same area. The earth preparation is going on and the fertilizer is mixed into the earth Now, only the watering is left and the seedlings will grow well The seed are sown in the bags and will grow for some time before they are planted out Better Globe’s new farm for testing and training in Kenya Published: 10th October 2006 Better Globe Forestry Ltd. has now taken over a test farm in Kenya where many different trees are being tested and a lot of vegetables are growing. It is important for us that we are able to see what kind of trees are the best in the dry areas where we are going to plant trees and to find out how they work, both with drip irrigation and with different fertilizers. The first Better Globe test and training farm in Kenya Some of the fruit trees that were planted 3 years ago From the harvest of some fruits and vegetables

Better Globe Forestry writes MoU with KEFRI

Better Globe Forestry writes MoU with KEFRI Published: 2009 In 2008 Better Globe Forestry signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI) in the area of cooperation in developing industrialized planting of Mukau in Kenya. This means that Better Globe have the full support of their knowledge, laboratories and research facilities in Kenya. We have already gotten a lot of support during our pilot project in Kiambere and they have already helped us with several insects, pests and diseases related problems and because of this we have managed to handle all of them in a good way and decreased the mortality rate of the trees from 40 percent to less than 5 percent. That is one of the reasons that we now are ready to speed up the planting process, which we could not do before. Note that Kiambere has been a pilot project to gather experiences and knowledge about how to plant trees outside the rainy season. The mortality rate has therefore been high, before finding the best ways to reproduce trees in dry seasons. Better Globe Forestry is known to practically all forestry related people in Kenya and has a very good reputation there. By launching the Tree magazine "MITI", Better Globe Forestry will be even more recognised the coming years. Better Globe Forestry signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI) Better Globe Forestry with “In Vitro” development Published: 2008 The Kenyan company has done a lot of development work during 2008. Our pilot project in Kiambere has now ended and by the end of 2009 we are starting to plant trees in an industrialized way in Sosoma, where we have 60,000 Ha land for planting Mukau and Acacia Senegal. We also expect to have Mukau produced in laboratory (In vitro) at the end of 2009, from the laboratory we are working with in Belgium. Until that happen we will use the old way of germinating the Mukau trees and that is also what we have done so far in Kiambere. In vitro production of mukau trees. Our Workers in Better Globe Forestry Published: 2007 Between November 2006 and April 2007 we planted about 150,000 seedlings of Mukau, Neem and Jatropha. On the ground this translates itself into 83 Ha. This trial plantation which is a mandatory part of our 5,000 Ha project in Kiambere teaches us a lot about afforestation in the tricky conditions that are ASAL (arid and semi-arid lands) in Kiambere. In the Kiambere area people survive with less than 1 US$ a day and they are eager to see us starting big scale with the tree planting project. Our small pilot plantation allowed us to hire about 60 men and women, all from the area. Please try to imagine that in some cases a salary makes the difference between live and death. Our small pilot plantation allowed us to hire about 60 men and women. 80 000 Trees is being planted Published: 2007 Better Globe Forestry is now in the middle of a new busy planting period with the planting of aproximatrely 80,000 trees on our first plantation at the Kiambere lake in Kenya. The photos show two of the tree types in our nursery, Neem and Jatropha. Better Globe's chairman, Rino Solberg, on the image to the left with a Neem tree in his hand. The Neem tree is a medical tree which will grow for 4-5 years before we start harvesting it. The Jatropha tree can be harvestet already after 2-3 years and the oil content of the "nuts" will be used to produce biodiesel. Before we started the planting we had an inspection from The National Environment Management Authority i Kenya (NEMA). NEMA is the governemental body which control all bigger developments whithin the area of environmental impact, in order to find if they have a negativ impact on the environment. We are happy to say that they were happy with the job we have done and Better Globe Forestry's tree planting project got accepted. One of the things we have done was that we have made several small "dams" in order to stop erosion of the sand to hinder it from flowing into the lake. Better Globe Group's chairman, Rino Solberg, with a Neem tree seedling in his hand. Another Donation of 10,000 Trees to ASK Published: 2006 On September 14th 2006 Better Globe Forestry Ltd. executed a donation of 10,000 trees from Better Globe’s members to The Agriculture Society of Kenya (ASK). This is the second donation of 10,000 trees to ASK. The tree planting took place in Nyeri. The Minister of Agriculture in Kenya, Honourable Kipruto Arap Kirwa, planted the first tree and thanked for the donation. Better Globe Forestry Ltd. was represented by the PR Director for Africa – Mrs. Julie Solberg, Managing Director Mr. Jean Paul Deprins and the Executive Director Mr. Jan Van den Abeele. They also joined a VIP lunch on the same day. At this lunch there were also many representatives from The Ministry of Agriculture. In addition to the speeches made by the representatives from Better Globe, the Chairman of ASK, Mr Timothy Ogucha Omato, thanked on behalf of ASK for the donations made trough Better Globe Forestry by the members of Better Globe in Scandinavia. PR Director Julie Solberg and the Minister of Agriculture, here planting the first donation tree. One of the Leading Forestry Experts in Africa has started working with us Published: 2006 Jan Van den Abeele is one of the leading Forestry experts in Africa. He is now engaged as Executive Director for Better Globe Forestry Ltd. in Kenya from 1st August 2006. The engagement of Jan Van den Abeele is a giant leap forward for Better Globe in Kenya. Jan is a Belgian forester/agronomist who has more than 26 years of experience within tree planting in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa. His long experience in Africa makes him one of the leading forestry people in Africa, especially for East-Africa. His expertise will also be used in the other areas where Better Globe Forestry will concentrate its work. Jan has also great experience on water management and irrigation techniques. He has carried through many projects of this kind in different developing countries. We welcome Jan Van den Abeele to work with us! Jan Van den Abeele engaged as Executive Director for Better Globe Forestry in Kenya. The First Donation of 10,000 Trees to The Agriculture Society of Kenya has taken place Published: 2006 On January 12th 2006 Better Globe Forestry executed a donation of 10,000 trees from Better Globe’s members to The Agriculture Society of Kenya (ASK). This was the first donation of 10,000 trees to ASK. The tree planting took place at the ASK International Show ground in Nairobi. Better Globe Chairman Rino Solberg is planting the first of 10,000 trees.

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The Companies in the Better Globe Group in Africa

The Companies in the Better Globe Group in Africa:

Better Globe Forestry Ltd. - Kenya

This forestry company is the mother company of our forest companies and is the company doing the planning, physical plantation, hiring people and having the executive responsibility of planting the trees and seeing to that all the studies like Environmental Impact Assessment and Feasibility studies are done in a proper way. Better Globe Forestry also runs a 45 acres test and training farm in Kibwesi in Kenya for trees and agriculture projects. This mother company is also implementing a quality management system for environment in accordance with the ISO 14001 standard. Better Globe Forestry does not need any investors.

The company will work close with the communities wherever we have a tree plantation and provide people with jobs, schools, water, a clinic and agricultural help through Microfinance, so they can become self-sustainable.

Equator Biofuel Ltd. - Kenya

This company is growing Jatropha trees for Biofuel production. The company started operation in 2007, has so far planted 50 Ha with Jatropha in a pilot project and is aiming at becoming the biggest Biofuel producing company in Africa. We are planning to plant more than 100,000 Ha with Jatropha trees in arid land only. We are therefore seeking investors as potential partner, preferably in the field of Biofuel. A Feasibility study has been made for the project, which shows very positive profitability.

Mukau Wood Ltd. - Kenya

This company will grow a type of mahogany tree called Mukau (Melia Volkensii) on 50.000 Ha land in Kenya. The tree is fast growing and has approx. 50-60 cm diameter bole already after 18-20 years. The structure of the wood is beautiful and the quality is similar to other known mahogany or teak trees. A Feasibility study has also been made for this project, which shows very positive profitability. We have for more than 2 years worked on "In Vitro" production of Mukau in a Belgian Laboratory and will get the first "protocol" by the end of 2009. The industrial planting of Mukau will start beginning of 2010.

Better Globe Forestry Ltd. - Uganda

This forestry company is incorporated in Uganda and will start the tree planting process in 2010/11. The company intends to start massive tree planting on dry land in the North and East of Uganda in the years to come.

Integrity First Ltd. - Uganda

This company is publishing the Book "Put Integrity First" with the subtitle "If you want success in Africa", by our Chairman Rino Solberg. By getting this book to the young people in Africa they will hopefully learn and be motivated to use Integrity to become successful. We believe this will be a great help in fighting corruption in Africa, by starting with the young people and think long term. This book is given free as an e-book to all students in schools and universities in Africa.

A FREE version of the e-book, Put Integrity First, can be downloaded here.

Equator Line Centre Ltd. - Kenya

This company has 500 acres of land, where the main road from south to north in Uganda crosses the Equator, and will build a hotel resort, a golf course and a culture/sculpture park. The project is expected to commence in 2011 and will be the only one of its kind in the world where a golf player can hit the ball from one hemisphere to the other. The project is expected to contribute a lot to Uganda’s tourism. Anyone who is interested in owning a part of The Equator can contact us as there are some options for investors in some part of this project.

WebBizAfrica Ltd. - Uganda

This company aims at becoming the biggest and most used African Internet portal, with all you need to know about all countries in Africa for business or leisure. The company also has the goal to make it easier for small African companies to sell their products abroad and create contacts with the international market through this website.

Total Quality Management Ltd. (Uganda and Kenya)

Total Quality Management Ltd (TQM) is a consultancy company with a mission of building leadership through quality, promoting integrity and effectiveness in African business. TQM were the pioneers in bringing the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) Quality Management systems concept to Uganda in 1994.
The major role of TQM is to help companies achieve better quality and effectivity through ISO Certification.

TQM has helped 86 companies in Uganda and 14 companies in Kenya getting certified to ISO 9000 and ISO 14001 series standard. Some of the companies we have offered consultancy services to in Uganda include; Sheraton Hotel, Uganda Batteries, Casements Africa, Hima Cement, Hwan Sung, Nile Breweries, Adtranz, Nile Bank, Roofings, Sadolin paints, Steel Rolling Mills, Total Oil, National Medical Stores, Uganda Aluminium Ltd., Rwenzori Highland Tea Co, Uganda Travel Bureau and Roco Construction, to mention only a few.