2023-2028

School Lunch is Served!

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.

www.food4education.org

CHALLENGE

Hungry kids cannot learn or grow. One in four children in Kenya are stunted due to chronic undernutrition, and 60% of children attending state primary schools are not receiving adequate nutrition. Midday school meals improve nutrition, boost school attendance and increase learning.

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.