Better Globe AS is a Norwegian social enterprise that markets and sells green and sustainable products to help reduce poverty and corruption in East Africa. By selling Donation and Sponsor Packages, we effectively help crowdfund Better Globe Forestry Ltd.’s (BGF) activities in Kenya and Uganda.

BGF’s admirable goal is to reduce poverty and corruption through large-scale tree-planting activities in East Africa’s arid and semi-arid areas. BGF is dedicated to fostering employment opportunities in rural communities. They help farmers increase their yield using agroforestry techniques. They provide training, social support, and finances microloan banks, schools, and water-related projects.

The compassionate customers of Better Globe AS, who support the effort by purchasing Donation Packages and Sponsor Packages, have so far been the primary funding source for BGF’s business activities. With support from people like you, we can tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges in a sustainable and economically sound way.

Our products help plant African mahogany trees that remove CO2 from the air, making you “Carbon Neutral” when you purchase our products regularly. Becoming a customer of Better Globe AS is financially sustainable for you as a potential new customer as well. Half of the trees you sponsor through your purchases are administered by the Swedish tree asset management company, Tree Partner Solutions AB (TPS). As a gesture of gratitude for supporting TPS and BGF’s partner farmers, you have the chance to swap the receipts from half of the trees you assist in planting for shares in TPS through yearly share offerings.

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Since 2006, BGF has established tree plantations and has collaborated closely with partner farmers (since 2015) in Kenya’s semi-arid areas. And at the end of 2017, BGF started to support agroforestry initiatives with partner farmers in Uganda. Besides binding carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, these activities help reduce erosion problems and prevent further desertification south of the Sahara. They also increase crop yields and profitability for the farmers.

The trees planted are native to the area. As with any forestry company, trees are the business’s economic engine. Nevertheless, BGF is far from being an ordinary forestry company. Its unique advantages are twofold: the trees are classified as hardwood fully comparable to mahogany, and the trees grow fast in dry areas. Secondly, these African mahogany trees offer a long-term economic perspective for BGF, the local farmers, and for our caring customers.

Supporting a greener futureand reducing extreme poverty in Africa with Better Globe AS is as sustainable for your economy as it is for the environment.

Unlike most other forestry companies, BGF has opted for a mix of crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship as a business financing model. Your sponsorship allows BGF to improve the environment and alleviate poverty in Kenya and Uganda. Thanks to purchases from people like you, BGF can help the environment and biodiversity while reducing extreme poverty. So, with Better Globe AS, you are supporting a socially responsible, sustainable, and award-winning company that aims to improve the livelihood of impoverished farming communities. All while caring for the environment, enhancing food security, and supporting a better future for us all.

As a customer, you can sponsor tree-planting activities and provide social support by purchasing Donation Packages and Sponsor Packages. To maximize your contributions and the potential to accumulate TPS shares before their intended initial public offering (IPO) after 2026, setting up a subscription is recommended. It is the best way to help create social change in Africa over time with a chance to accumulate TPS shares in the process.

By becoming a customer today, you contribute to improving the future of East African smallholder farming families. Additionally, you can support children’s schooling, help preserve biodiversity, improve the environment, and help create a better future for yourself and the coming generations.

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By purchasing the Donation Package from Better Globe AS, you not only support crucial community-owned microfinance banks in BGF’s operating areas but also contribute to the renovation and development of schools.

Our charity partner, Child Africa International, receives funds from the Donation Package. These funds are used to support schools in Kenya and to build and run their schools in Uganda.

It is the Donation Package that creates the most significant social impact. With it, you can create real and permanent positive change while benefiting from half of the trees you help to plant.
 

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Forests have always had high economic value, a fact that remains true to this day. When the trees have reached their production age, BGF can harvest socially responsible and sustainable timber and other wood-related products. And the most significant yield is likely to come from the manufacturing and sales of high-quality and certified ready-made furniture and parquets. Besides the highly valuable timber from tropical hardwood, environmentally friendly biopesticides are other potential future income streams from the Melia volkensii trees planted in Kenya. The carbon credit market is another area that might prove viable in the not-so-distant future.

Money in a forestry business usually comes from the felling of trees and selling logs. But as you can see, BGF is creating a more diversified income stream that will help create more job opportunities for East Africa’s impoverished communities. After 20 years, BGF cuts down the trees. TPS is then free to produce sustainable and highly profitable wood products from the trees under their management and increase profits for their shareholders.

More trees will always be planted than what is harvested. The operation is sustainable on all levels and structured to support the environment, alleviate extreme poverty, and even help reduce tropical deforestation.

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Nobody can do everything on their own, but together we can create significant and long-lasting positive impacts. To help more people out of poverty, we need your help to fund the planting of millions of trees along with our tree planting agent, BGF. Even the monthly purchase of one Sponsor Package makes a difference over time, both for the East African farmers and the environment. And with the Donation Package, you can more than double your impact.

Please learn more on our website and get in touch if you have questions. Thank you for your interest in Better Globe. Your support contributes to our vision of a greener and healthier Africa with less extreme poverty on this amazing and diverse continent.

We rise together when we create benefits for biodiversity, the environment, impoverished families, and the global community at large. So, join us today and help plant trees for a better future.

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