Your donations go where it really matters … Malawi

WHERE THE MONEY GOES

Ripple Africa is an effective charity in Africa and we receive funding from a variety of sources – companies, grants and trusts, major donors, the general public, schools, churches, and other groups – towards our projects.
Women sit in a tree nursery in Malawi ahead of planting out their seedlings

ENVIRONMENT

Witness smiles proudly in her sweet potato field in Malawi

AGRICULTURE

Primary school children with newly delivered teacher subject guides in Malawi

EDUCATION

Maurice has received a wheelchair so his family can involve him in everyday life in Malawi

HEALTHCARE

Ripple Africa is run like an efficient business, and we monitor closely all costs and procedures to make sure that the money our donors give us goes to where it really matters … Malawi. We are extremely proud of the value for money we provide for our donors.

How we use your money

Charitable Activities
92%
Admin / Fundraising
8%

An Effective Charity in Africa – Some of Our Achievements to Date

  • We employ 219 Malawian staff full-time, have over 800 part-time team members, and 7,014 volunteers working on our Fish Conservation and Forest Conservation projects.
  • We are helping communities to conserve the fish along 736 km of lakeshore.
  • We help communities to conserve over 340 sq.km of forest.
  • We have helped communities to plant over 30 million trees.
  • We are working with 125,000 households to provide each with a Changu Changu Moto fuel-efficient cookstove, saving 250,000 bundles of wood per week.
  • We support community clubs to raise and plant over 75,000 fruit trees each year, and to set up sustainable farming businesses. 
  • We have helped more than 7,250 farmers to grow improved varieties of sweet potatoes.
  • We run eight pre-schools, support six primary schools, and we have built a secondary school.
  • We provide vital therapy and rehabilitation services to over 300 disabled children and young adults,
  • We are helping to reduce period poverty and have provided menstrual cups to over 2,500 schoolgirls and women
  • We have repaired 936 broken boreholes giving people access to clean water again
  • We have built a local health dispensary for over 10,000 people, and have undertaken other building projects at Chintheche Rural Hospital and at health centres in nearby Kande and Kachere.

All this has been made possible by the generous support of our wonderful donors.

We want our donors to feel happy about the good things we are doing with their support. You can view our account history on the Charity Commission website by clicking on the “Find Charities” link and typing in our name (Ripple Africa) or number (1103256) in the “Charity search” box on the left hand side of the page.

Take a look at our Annual Reports: 2019-20202020-20212021-20222022-20232023-2024, and 2024-2025

Click on the image to read our 2025-2026 Impact Report.

£7 could provide vital care to a disabled child for a month

The disability group brings a smile to this little boys face

HOW WE USE YOUR GIFT AID

Gift Aid is a scheme which allows charities to reclaim basic rate tax paid on any money donated to them by UK tax payers. Charities can claim back 25p in every £1 that has been donated, from the basic tax that has already been paid on a donation.

The money that Ripple Africa claims back from the HMRC as part of the Gift Aid Scheme will be treated as unrestricted funding, even if the original donation is restricted.

You can download a Gift Aid Declaration here.