2023-2025

School Lunch is Served!

2023-2025

Food4Education

Food4Education is a Kenyan social enterprise that provides hot, nutritious, and affordable school meals to the lowest income children across the country to improve their nutrition and educational outcomes. Their 18 central kitchens are currently feeding almost 300,000 children daily with nutritious high-quality locally sourced meals in 5 counties through direct delivery and innovative government partnerships. They are on track to feed 400,000 children by the end of June 2024, clearly surpassing their original target of 195,000 by the end of June 2024.

www.food4education.org

CHALLENGE

Hungry kids cannot learn or grow. One in five children in Kenya are stunted due to chronic undernutrition and only 20% of the 10 million children attending state primary school receive adequate nutrition, leaving behind 8 million learners without a healthy meal every day. Midday school meals have the potential to improve nutrition, and boost school attendance and learning.

ACTION

Food4Education sources fresh food directly from local farmers, prepares low-cost nutritious meals in large central kitchens and delivers them to children in primary schools across Kenya.

Food4Education is testing a digital platform that enables parents to pay for these meals using mobile money. The cost is $0.15 per meal, reflecting a reduction of nearly 30% over the past three years.

IMPACT

300,000

Children fed daily

in 2024

+12M

Meals served

through the partnership with the Nairobi County government

central kitchens

run by Food4Education

higher national exam scores achieved

by kids in schools partnering with Food4Education (2020)