History

Ripples UK opens, serving London’s African refugee community

Ripples works within the refugee community to provide access to support services, particularly for women and families.  Ripples also contracts with the local government to deliver multicultural programs in schools and cultural sensitivity training to law enforcement. 

Ripples expands to Ghana and Nigeria, serving women entrepreneurs

Ripples begins piloting business models with 1,100 women in Ghana and 2,200 in Nigeria.

Ripples Ghana centralizes and scales operations around Shea Butter

• Production centers and warehouses are built
• Kneading machines replace manual labor 
• Fair trade and organic certification open up global markets
• 8,600 women and 43,000 children served by 2018

Ripples Nigeria Scales Across Multiple Business Sectors

• Internship program begins, delivering expertise in business and farming to women.
• Irrigation is added farms, expanding annual harvests from 1 to 4.
• Partnership with Nigerian port authority drives scale.
• 17,200 women and 72,800 children served by 2018.

Ripples Nigeria is disrupted by regional instability

Boka Haram raids on northern villages force ⅓ of Ripples smallholder farmers (1,000) to abandon their land.

Ripples Headquarters relocates to USA

Political landscape in Britain (“Brexit”) closed off primary donor base.

Ripples USA Partnership With UNDP Ghana – Seed Funding Provided For Shea Butter Fair Trade And Organic Certification

Ripples Farm Nigeria rebuilds around spices

Ripples Ghana pilots smallholder farming

• 50,000 shea and cashew trees planted
• Ripples Ghana scales to 9,100 women

Ripples Launches Yaji Spice

The for profit arm of Ripples builds new ethical supply chains between Africa and the global diaspora community