We Know First Hand
“Africa’s health could be number 1 if healthcare worked for the 70% of us who feed the world. But it doesn’t, nearly killing me as a child. I’m leading the comeback. Join me.”
— Dr. Shadrack Frimpong, Founder
Our Journey
2011
It started with exhaustion and a promise
Growing up in Tarkwa Breman to cocoa-farming parents, school took extra effort for our founder. Focus was hard. Fatigue was constant. He chalked it up to what everyone believed: no good school, no real clinic.
He pushed harder. In 2011, he won a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. And promised himself he’d come back and fix it.
2015
He returned to fulfill that promise.
2017
The world took notice
Forbes 30 Under 30. The Queen’s Young Leaders Award. Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award.
To many, it looked like a success story. In many ways, it was.
2019
But results didn't match investment.
Even with access, something wasn’t adding up.
Students were still struggling academically in ways their urban, non-farming peers were not.
Focus faded early. Performance dropped. Many left school for the fields
They weren’t lazy. They weren’t unmotivated. They finally had access.
So why couldn’t they use it?
2020
The answer wasn't in the classroom.
As Dr. Frimpong’s training deepened—through Penn, Cambridge, and Yale—and he engaged with experts at Harvard and the University of Ghana, the biology became clear.
Daily exposure to pesticides, heat, and dust disrupts sleep, elevates stress hormones, and inflames the developing brain. In children: attention disorders, cognitive fatigue. In parents: neurological disease, kidney failure, cancer.
What looked like individual struggle was predictable, exposure-driven damage.
The enemy wasn’t poverty. It was exposure.
2021
The clinic wasn't built for this.
Our clinical staff were trained to see malaria, TB, infections. Not occupational disease. By the time parents arrived with symptoms, damage was advanced.
Access alone wasn’t enough. Africa’s farm workers needed occupational healthcare. It didn’t exist.
2022
So we built it.
We evolved Cocoa360 into the world’s first school-powered occupational healthcare system—arming farm workers to intercept disease today and pandemic risk tomorrow.
35,000 farmers. 98% adherence. #1 in District Health, Ghana
2023
We worked our asses off to get here.
8 years. Multiple medical school rejections. Late nights to build these tools and to secure funding to bring them home.
No one was coming. So we built it ourselves.
We’re inspired by the farm workers who proved that even when neglected, they will rise for their health.
They’ve been holding the line. We just gave them armor.
2025
Cancer's cure is in the brain of a farmer's child.
We won’t stop until we defeat the enemy stealing it.
FarmerHealth is Africa’s health security prime.
We’re scaling our 10-year success in Ghana to 300 million farm ers across Africa who grow your chocolate, coffee, and meat.
We feed you.
We deserve protection to do that.
