Thank you for your interest in fundraising for Ripple Africa!
At Ripple Africa we run large-scale Environmental projects and local Education and Healthcare projects. From fish conservation to tree planting and forest conservation to fuel-efficient cookstoves, we have been working with communities in Malawi for almost 20 years!
Your fundraising efforts are so important to us. Without fundraisers like you, we wouldn’t be able to do the important work we do in Malawi.
Whether you are running a bake sale or climbing a mountain, we have some great resources to help you along the way with your fundraising!
Click here to download our fundraising pack.
Thanks for your interest in fundraising for Ripple Africa
At Ripple Africa we run large-scale Environmental projects and local Education and Healthcare projects. From fish conservation to tree planting and forest conservation to fuel-efficient cookstoves, we have been working with communities in Malawi for almost 20 years!
Your fundraising efforts are so important to us. Without fundraisers like you, we wouldn’t be able to do the important work we do in Malawi.
Whether you are running a bake sale or climbing a mountain, we have some great resources to help you along the way with your fundraising!
Click here to download our fundraising pack.
How fundraising works
1. Get inspired! We have lots of fundraising ideas which can be found in our fundraising pack. Let us know that you are fundraising for us by signing up here.
2. Click here to download our fundraising pack and get everything you need to launch your fundraising campaign! Whether you choose one of our ideas or one of your own, we look forward to seeing what you do.
3. Start your fundraising! In your fundraising pack you will find sponsorship forms and donation forms. We also recommend using Givey if you are wanting to raise money online. But most importantly… Have fun!
4. Make an impact! If you are raising money on your Givey page, it will automatically come to us or you can donate online, through the post or over the phone. We will keep you updated on the projects in Malawi.
How Your Donation Can Help
We are often asked what we need funding for or how your donation will make a difference so we hope this helps.
Either choose a project that is close to your heart or if you are unsure which project you would like to raise money for, make a general donation to Ripple Africa to help us to continue empowering communities in Malawi.
Don’t forget to follow our news and updates on our social media channels too: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Every £5 you raise can plant five fruit trees with a community club
Every £10 you raise can build a fuel-efficient cookstove for a family
Every £20 you raise can buy five bundles of sweet potato vines for a family
Every £50 you raise can plant 200 trees and protect 600 trees in a forest
Don’t have time to host a fundraiser? Donate today to support our projects in Malawi. Thank you.
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About Ripple Africa
The charity was founded in 2003 by Geoff and Liz Furber who both share a passion for Africa, especially northern Malawi. We started by running many projects in a small area learning from our experiences before expanding. We now run large scale conservation projects over many districts and support healthcare and education projects near to our base in Nkhata Bay District.
The charity’s overriding aim is to empower communities so they themselves can achieve a sustainable future – we strongly believe that it is the local people who are the solution to many of the challenges they face. We do many things, in response to the local communities’ needs, as many different issues are closely linked.
By enabling the local communities, great things can happen. Ripple Africa’s belief is “Providing a hand UP and not a hand out,” and that philosophy has been central to the charity’s ideology for nearly two decades.
From humble roots, employing just a handful of Malawian’s, today the charity covers six Districts. We now employ more than 170 Malawian team members and over 9,500 local people work with us on a voluntary or part time basis on our environmental projects.
Despite the charity’s significant achievements and ambitious scope, Ripple Africa is still small enough that the charity remains home-grown and grassroots based, and it is our intention to keep it that way.
Some of our achievements
- We help communities to conserve over 340 sq.km of forest.
- To date, we have helped communities to plant over 19 million trees. Each year approximately two million trees are planted.
- We are helping fishing communities to conserve the fish along 450 km of lakeshore.
- We are working with more than 47,000 households to provide each with a Changu Changu Moto fuel-efficient cookstove, saving millions of bundles of wood per year.
- We provide 12,500 bundles of improved sweet potato vines to thousands of farmers each year.
- We educate and train fruit tree clubs and schools on how to successfully grow thousands of fruit trees each year.
Where your donation goes
Your donations go where it really matters … Malawi.
Ripple Africa is run like an efficient business, and we monitor closely all costs and procedures to make sure that the money you give us goes to the projects. We are extremely proud of the value for money we provide for our donors with 90% going on Charitable Activities and only 10% on Fundraising and Administration.