Providing Education, Inspiring Young Minds

Over 900 children receiving an early childhood education and nutritious meal every day

EDUCATION IN MALAWI, AFRICA

Do you want to help create a community of learners? Join us to fund early years education for hundreds of children in Malawi. To keep you updated, we will send you stories on the children and their teachers.

Stepping Stones

£5 per month provides a child a foundation education every month
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Bright Beginnings

£10 per month gives two children an early years education every month
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High Hopes

£25 per month ensures five children can attend pre-school every month
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CREATING A COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS​

We run eight pre-schools, providing early childhood education to over
900 children every day in Malawi.

The children learn the alphabet, numbers, colours, shapes and much more. Singing, dancing and play are important parts of the day too.

Enriching the mind, one child at a time

With your help we can continue making a difference to early childhood education by ensuring that all the pre-schools are equipped with enthusiastic and trained teachers, varied learning resources and are a safe and fun place to learn.

Reaching the most vulnerable children

Many children in Malawi are orphans or live in extreme poverty and often struggle to find enough food to eat, let alone find the time to focus on their education. Our sweet potato project means that they get a hot meal whenever they attend pre-school. This helps improve concentration, creates an incentive to attend, and provides a benefit not only to their educational needs but also to their health.

Check out our pre-schools and take action to give children the gift of an education.

Join us to help children receive a pre-school education

Stepping Stones

£5 per month provides a child a foundation education every month
Click to donate

Bright Beginnings

£10 per month gives two children an early years education every month
Click to donate

High Hopes

£25 per month ensures five children can attend pre-school every month
Click to donate
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TESTIMONIALS

“I spent nine weeks volunteering with Ripple Africa’s Education projects in 2017 and again over the summer in 2019. The pre-schools provide a fun and safe learning environment where children can play and develop through song, counting and creative activities. I continue to fundraise for and support this project as I saw with my own eyes, the impact they are having on the community.“
Emma L
“Ripple Africa’s pre-school program gives children a decent meal and a basic education of skills to build on. This helps children to be successful in their primary education. Ripple Africa is completely transparent with how the money raised is spent; if you are thinking of supporting them, we definitely think you should. You will be supporting more than just a charity but changing lives across Malawi.”
Natasha and Tom Ridley
“Thompson Taraz first started supporting Ripple Africa’s Pre-School project in 2005. Every year our donations enable the charity to budget and plan in order to achieve their educational goals. In those 15 years some 4,500 students have benefited from the eight pre-schools and we are always delighted to hear about the educational progress and impact that the charity continues to make.”
Thompson Taraz

your questions answered

Accordion Content

Most people recognise the critical link between the important foundation which early childhood education provides, and the level of success in education students will experience later on. Those first formative years are essential to a child’s education and development as a whole.

The Malawian government recognises this link and encourages communities to set up local pre-schools. However, with no financial support, the reality is that pre-schools are almost always run on a voluntary basis without any resources, and most teachers work for free, often in buildings which are unsuitable and even unsafe for children.

Ripple Africa is making a difference to early childhood education by ensuring that the eight pre-schools we run are equipped with enthusiastic teachers, varied learning resources and are a safe and fun place to learn.

Our pre-schools are the perfect foundation for children going to primary school. Headteachers and teachers at the primary schools we support have commented that the children who have attended our pre-schools are far better prepared and developed for Standard One.

Many children in Malawi are orphans or live in extreme poverty and often struggle to find enough food to eat, let alone find the time to focus on their education. Our sweet potato project means that they get a hot meal whenever they attend pre-school. This helps improve concentration, creates an incentive to attend pre-school, and reaches out to the most vulnerable children in the community by providing a benefit not only to their educational needs but also to their health. Each teacher is paid a small bonus for growing the sweet potatoes, which also helps to improve their own income.
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This project addresses the following Sustainable Development Goals: