Food 4 Education (F4E), a Kenyan non-profit organization on a mission to eradicate childhood hunger by mainstreaming scalable and high quality school feeding across Africa, has been named to the fourth annual TIME100 Most Influential Companies list.
TIME100 highlights companies making an extraordinary impact around the world. This honour recognizes F4E’s vital role in ensuring Africa’s children, as the global workforce of the future, have access to a hot, affordable, and nutritious school meal every day.
Wawira Njiru, CEO F4E, said as the largest locally led and independently run school feeding programme in Africa, F4E is working to close the hunger gap by creating the blueprint for scalable, replicable and cost-efficient school feeding across Africa.
“In only 25 years, one in four people will be African. This seismic demographic shift underscores the urgency of expanding locally-rooted school feeding programmes as a crucial investment in our shared future. It also represents a significant opportunity to build more resilient, just, and sustainable food systems across the continent,” she said.
F4E started from feeding 25 kids from a single makeshift kitchen in 2012. It has evolved into a large-scale operation that now provides over 300,000 meals daily, demonstrating the vision, dedication and operational efficiency of a global food corporation.
Food 4 Education Board Chair Kristin Groos Richmond observed that it is an honour to support F4E and its innovative approach to transforming lives through nutrition and education, which this extraordinary award by TIME so aptly recognizes.
“Having co-founded and worked as the CEO of Revolution Foods delivering healthy school meals in the United States, I understand the profound impact that access to nutritious food can have on a child’s ability to learn and thrive,” he noted.
To date, F4E’s efforts are driving a sustained, positive impact on nutritional, educational and economic outcomes for school children and the wider local community with 100 per cent daily dietary diversity needs met.
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