Food 4 Education
Founded 2012 · 457 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors
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Food for Education (F4E) operates centralized, tech-enabled kitchens that provide nutritious, locally-sourced school lunches to children for $0.30 or less per meal, and shares its model with governments for replication. It focuses on mainstreaming school feeding programs across Africa to address classroom hunger.
Founders & leadership
Food 4 Education was founded in 2012 by Wawira Njiru.
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Wawira NjiruFounder & CEOWawira Njiru founded Food4Education, which operates school feeding programs delivering meals to over 500,000 students across multiple schools in Kenya with plans to expand across Africa. She has developed technology and logistics infrastructure to enable low-cost, large-scale meal distribution while supporting local food systems and smallholder farmers.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Food 4 Education do?
- Food for Education (F4E) operates centralized, tech-enabled kitchens that provide nutritious, locally-sourced school lunches to children for $0.30 or less per meal, and shares its model with governments for replication. It focuses on mainstreaming school feeding programs across Africa to address classroom hunger.
- Who founded Food 4 Education?
- Food 4 Education was founded by Wawira Njiru in 2012.
- Who are Food 4 Education's investors?
- Food 4 Education's investors include Ceniarth, Mulago Foundation.


