Sustainability projects
All Ripple Effect work looks to helping communities become self-sustaining.
These projects enable schools to generate income and they equip students with vocational skills. They also allow schools to produce their own materials, which in turn makes them more self-sufficient.
Sustainable projects have included vegetable gardens, fish farms, cookery equipment and weaving loom programs.
Vegetable garden cooperatives are the most common and rewarding Ripple Effect sustainable projects. We work with schools attended by students from very poor backgrounds, who rarely bring food for lunch and who rely on their school to provide meals and water. If a school has its own vegetable garden it can reduce the cost of providing meals for students. This project can develop the vocational skills of the students and any excess produce can be sold to the local community to generate income.
All of the vegetable gardens that we have funded have been tended to and maintained by the students themselves.
New projects for which we are raising funds
Completed projects:
