2023-2028
School Lunch is Served!
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2023-2028
Food4Education
Food4Education (F4E) is a Kenyan social enterprise that provides hot, nutritious, and affordable school meals to children across the country to improve their nutrition and educational outcomes. Since 2012, F4E has served over 100 million meals. It is currently feeding over 450,000 children daily with nutritious high-quality meals in 10 counties. By 2028, F4E aims to reach 1 million children across Kenya.
CHALLENGE
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ACTION
F4E’s model optimises costs and operations across the entire school feeding value chain to deliver affordable, nutritious meals to children attending public schools in Kenya.
It sources food in bulk – including from local farmers – and prepares meals in large centralised kitchens or standardised rural ones. Over a third of the meals are cooked in one of ten central kitchens - each producing up to 10,000 meals a day - or in F4E’s Giga kitchen, Africa’s largest, which serves up to 60,000 meals a day.
In participating public primary schools, parents can purchase highly subsidised digital meal vouchers through the Tap2Eat system – a smart bracelet worn by children.
On average, each meal costs $0.29 to produce- with parents’ contribution covering 55% of the cost.
By 2028, Food for Education aims to feed 1 million children daily across Kenya.
IMPACT
Children fed daily
by end of 2024
increase in reach
since Jan 2023, when it was serving 93,000 meals a day
nutritious meals served
since 2012