Food 4 Education
Malnutrition is common in school-age children across Africa. At the same time, there's a ton of evidence that midday school meals have a huge effect on learning—bigger than a lot of other education interventions like teacher bonuses, more books, and tablet learning .
The Idea
Outsourced School Lunches
Total Investment
2100000
Grants
0
Equity/SAFE
0
Debt/Convertible Debt
Funded Since
2018
Geography
Sector
Structure
The Mission
End classroom hunger.
How It Works
Food 4 Education (F4E) has devised a “hub-and-spoke” kitchen model that achieves impressive economies of scale to source, prepare, and distribute healthy school meals in bulk that parents can afford with the help of a small government subsidy. They've designed nutritious recipes, established suppliers for quality ingredients year-round, and built commercial kitchens for daily bulk meal prep. Students pay per meal using a cashless payment technology F4E developed.
The Dream
Small food businesses prepare and deliver school lunches to primary school kids, and parents can afford to pay for these meals with the support of a government subsidy.
Why We're In
School feeding programs have been rigorously studied as a way to nourish kids and improve learning, but tough logistics and cost-sensitive parents have been a constraint to growth in Africa. F4E has broken the mold with their laser focus on cost, including securing a government subsidy and maximizing efficiency. Their model works seamlessly in urban and peri-urban settings, and they’re iterating on cost-effective ways to reach rural schools. They feeds 300K kids/day across five Kenyan counties—a footprint big enough to capture government attention and the global spotlight, including the 2024 Skoll Award. To prove out their model, they built Africa’s first Giga Kitchen, which feeds 60K kids/day, and secured political will for investments in school nutrition.
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