We are incredibly proud to be included in
@TIME
’s list of 100 Most Influential Companies in the world.
Our work scaling school meals is
#FeedingTheFuture
of Africa.
We are honored to be included alongside organizations that are changing the world.
Our 1st kitchen vs our 7th kitchen.🥳
Started by feeding 25 children but now currently feeding 140,000 children everyday across all our 7 kitchens.
#Feedingthefuture
.
A closer look inside our Mombasa kitchen - our largest kitchen yet with a capacity of serving over 20,000 children everyday.
Next up, our Nairobi giga kitchen that will prepare over 60K meals everyday to learners across Nairobi.
#Feedingthefuture
Honored to have had His Excellency Deputy President
@WilliamsRuto
visit our kitchen, serve lunch and enjoy it with the kids.😋
All Kenyan kids need access to daily school meals.
Thank you for your commitment and promise to ensure school feeding for all.
#Feedingthefuture
We open the doors to our 2nd kitchen today in partnership with Dagoretti Constituency,
@KiarieJohn
.
From this kitchen, we will feed 20,000 kids once schools reopen. A step closer to our goal of 1,000,000 kids by 2025.
#Feedingthefuture
Spent the morning with H.E
@SakajaJohnson
touring Africa’s largest kitchen yet - our Giga kitchen that will be using steam gas technology and will feed over 60,000 Nairobi children everyday under
#Dishinacounty
from 3rd term.
#Feedingthefuture
We have progressed from serving 1 Million meals every year in 2020, to current +1 Million meals every month.
Next goal - 1Million meals every day.
Excited to be
#feedingthefuture
In the past year, we've moved from serving 1M meals every year to now serving over 1M meals every month.
1M meals that ensure children are able to stay in school each month.
#Feedingthefuture
A win for Nairobi children!
We are proud to be feeding the future of Nairobi County through our partnership with the county government under the visionary leadership of
@SakajaJohnson
to ensure 250,000 Nairobi children are fed everyday under
#DishinaCounty
Proud to be among this year’s
@ElevatePrize
winners!🙌👏🏾
We are honored to have
@wawiranjiru
recognized alongside incredible change makers across the world for the important work we do to end childhood hunger.
#Feedingthefuture
The math is simple:
Mobile money + NFC Technology = Nutritious Lunches everyday
Through
#Tap2Eat
we are able to distribute over 100K lunches everyday seamlessly and efficiently in just 40 minutes to hundreds of schools across the country.
#Feedingthefuture
@wawiranjiru
is the 'UN Person of the Year 2021'.
The founder of
@Food4Education
, an NGO that provides meals to children in public schools, will be feted at UN offices in Gigiri, Nairobi, tomorrow.
Her organisation currently feeds over 33,000 children.
#TV47News
Started the year serving 33K meals. Ending the year serving 93K meals in over 100 schools across the country.
Because of your incredible support, we are securing Kenya's future, one meal at a time. Thank you!
#Feedingthefuture
.
Proud to be one of this year’s
@SkollFoundation
Awardee for Social Innovation for the important work of doing of
#Feedingthefuture
🎊🥳
Register for free ➡️
to catch
@wawiranjiru
at the Skoll World Forum award ceremony today from 6:30pm EAT.
Today we celebrate
@wawiranjiru
, recipient of the 2021 UN Person of the year.
Thank you
@UnKenya
for the recognition and honor.
ALL children should have access to quality, nutritious meals and that’s why we are
#feedingthefuture
'I started working at Food4Education in 2012 and was the 1st employee. We started feeding 25 kids in a small mabati kitchen that would leak when it rained. Today,we have a beautiful kitchen. We started small but today we feed 10,000 students.'
Eunice Kawira
#FeedingthroughCOVID19
Preparing and distributing 33000 meals everyday by 12noon means our days start as early as 6am!
Every step has been designed to be fast, efficient and of the highest quality so our children can get the best.
We love what we do.
#Feedingthefuture
"I am a lunch prefect, so I don’t pay for food. I serve food and it’s very good. l love Mathematics, Science, English and Social Studies. We are a family of four. My mother is a house help and works in Kiambu and she sends me money for our needs."
#FeedingthroughCOVID19
Before schools' closure, we were feeding
#10KEveryday
. We have been working hard, round the clock and now we are set to feed 30,000 children everyday once schools reopen.
#Feedingthefuture
Our first kitchen vs our latest kitchen🎊🙌
Proud of the +31M nutritious meals we have prepared and served across all our kitchens since 2012.
#Feedingthefuture
Mombasa tumewasili!!😀
We are excited to announce that we are now serving lunch meals in Mombasa County.🎉
Our children deserve the best and we're committed to ensuring kids all over the country have access to quality nutritious meals.
#Feedingthefuture
We’re now serving lunch to over 1000 children everyday from our newest kitchen in Dagoretti South Constituency. Even as we continue to prepare for schools reopening next week Monday, we’re making sure that more and more children are able to access quality meals.
#Feedingthefuture
Ksh 186,845 raised! That's 7474 meals.😀😀
Thank you so much to everyone who has generously contributed to
#Feedingthefuture
. Thank you
@johnallannamu
for spearheading this campaign! Our goal remains
#100keveryday
by 2020!
Honored to have hosted our partners,
@MulagoFound
, in our Kisumu kitchen.
Because of them, we are feeding 13,000 children everyday in Kisumu.
#Feedingthefuture
Our new normal!
It’s finally
#backtoschool
.
We are all set to safely prepare and deliver lunch to children as per the outlined Govt COVID-19 protocols to re-opening of schools.
We can’t wait to serve the kids today.😃
#Feedingthefuture
It was a great pleasure to host Sir Chris Hohn at our Ruiru kitchen to see our model of excellence for school feeding. Together, we are scaling our model so no child has to learn on an empty stomach. Thank you,
@CIFFchild
, for partnering with us to feed the future 🇰🇪 !
We're excited to be in Murang'a county, in partnership with the County Govt, serving fortified Uji to 40K ECDE learners and creating over 1000 direct and indirect jobs across the county.
Thank you
@HonKangata
for making school feeding a priority in Murang'a.
#Feedingthefuture
‘I do small casual jobs. In a day, when there was no Coronavirus pandemic, l would make Sh400 a day. Now there is no work. I used to cook food for James, but it wouldn’t be enough. The portion served in school, however, is enough.'
#FeedingthroughCOVID19
A closer look into our newest, modern central kitchen set to feed an additional 20,000 children once schools reopen through
#Tap2Eat
. The kitchen is fitted to use 100% clean energy.
#Feedingthefuture
"I've worked here for 3 years. I love this job. It's improved my life. I report to work at 6:30am. I put fresh vegetables in the food. Most of the children we feed get 1 meal a day. Our hot lunch is the highlight of their day. They call me Mama Tap in the community."-Winfred
Back to school, back to
#feedingthefuture
.
We are excited about all the work this year, starting with our mega kitchens that are underway across the country!
Now more than ever, our children deserve access to quality, nutritious meals.
Honored to have had HRH Princess Sarah Zeid of Jordan who is also
@WFP
Special Advisor on Maternal and Child Nutrition visit one of our kitchens and see first hand how quality nutrition has a direct positive impact on education outcomes for all children.
#Feedingthefuture
.
"A hungry nation cannot grow. Yet when I read this year's election manifestos, I will expect to see presidential candidates' plan on scaling school feeding to all Kenyan children." -
@wawiranjiru
Read all about it as published on today's
@NationAfrica
.
#Feedingthefuture
Everyday, we are providing 40,000 cups of fortified porridge to ECDE learners in Murang'a county in partnership with the county govt,
@HonKangata
The program has already showed a nearly 70% increase in attendance and a 4% increase in enrollment, underlining the effectiveness of
Today we launch our 7th mega kitchen and the largest steam gas kitchen in Kenya - with a capacity to serve 20K meals everyday!
Our Mombasa kitchen is set to utilize steam gas technology for sustainability and efficiency.
#Feedingthefuture
#FeedingMombasa
Our Juja kitchen turned 1 this month!
From this kitchen alone, we've served over 1.6M meals👏🏼
Meals that have changed the lives of the children of Juja and their families.
Congratulations team Juja🥳
#Feedingthefuture
Throwback to our first kitchen serving only 25 children!
We're now feeding 50,000 children everyday in 7 central kitchens across the country.
#Feedingthefuture
.
With schools set to reopen in 2021, school feeding programs will be critical as they have been proven to bring children back to school.
Our 2nd kitchen is almost complete that will see us feed an additional 20,000 children in Dagoretti South Constituency.
#Feedingthefuture
We are proud to be named one of this year’s recipient of the
@SkollFoundation
Social Innovator Award. 🎊
The award acknowledges the outstanding impact of our blueprint model and our efforts to mainstream school feeding programs so that no child has to learn on an empty stomach.
As 2022 draws to a close, we celebrate the milestones that have allowed us to keep
#feedingthefuture
throughout the year.
✅We started the year distributing +30K meals to ending the year distributing +95K meals everyday…
"My dad uses all his money on alcohol.I take care of my two small sisters,17&13 y/o and one has special needs. My mum packed up and went to live up-country without telling anyone, so after Class 8, l left my parents’ house and started living with a friend."
#FeedingthroughCOVID19
Our 4th mega kitchen in progress!✅
We are ensuring more and more kids will have access to nutritious, quality lunch meals once schools re-open.
#Feedingthefuture
We love to see the impact a school meal has not only on the children we serve but also our incredible team members who work everyday to prepare and distribute these meals.
Watch👇🏾
#Feedingthefuture
Our Murang'a Uji project in partnership with Murang'a County Government
@HonKangata
has had resounding success in the school's first term.
Over 1.4M cups of fortified uji served in 40 days!👏🏼
Together, we're building a stronger and healthier future for the children of Murang'a.
“I really enjoy my work here cause I was once one of the students and I know how impactful the program was in my life.
I was able to finish my primary school, go to high school and later on to college." - Jackson, Loader.
(1/2)
Juja tupo site!😅
Our newest kitchen is up and running with a capacity to to serve +8000 meals everyday to schools across Juja.
The goal is simple - no child should go to school on an empty stomach.
#Feedingthefuture
We are excited to be launching Mombasa’s ECD School Feeding Program in partnership with Mombasa County that will provide nutritious meals to 11,000 ECD learners everyday.
Honored to have had French Minister of State for Development
@CZacharopoulou
, accompanied by the EU Ambassador, Henriette Geiger, and the French Ambassador
@arnaud_suquet
serve hot nutritious lunches in Olympic Primary School, Kibra, alongside H.E Gov
@SakajaJohnson
and
Excited to be expanding in Mombasa county with our new mega kitchen - a first of its kind in the area with a capacity of preparing +15K meals!
All children deserve access to quality, nutritious meals everyday.
#Feedingthefuture
We’re serving lunch to all schools in Ruiru Sub-county this
#KCPE2018
period to ensure no candidate has to sit for their exam while hungry. All the best to all candidates!
#feedingthefuture
Proud to be launching our 21st kitchen in Githunguri constituency. The kitchen, constructed by NG-CDF Githunguri under the patronage of
@hon_wamuchomba
, serves 23 schools in the area with a capacity of 10K meals everyday.
We are excited to be expanding our operations across
Proud to have served over 11M meals to Nairobi children under the
#DishinaCounty
programme by Nairobi County under the leadership of H.E
@SakajaJohnson
and with the participation of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
@FranceinKenya
that ensures learners who are not able
Our Kiambu kitchen is our newest addition!
We are in 18 schools and counting already.
Here’s a snapshot of what a day
#feedingthefuture
in Kiambu looks like!
With schools re-opening pushed until January 2021, kids who rely on school meals are at risk of hunger. Now more than ever, more needs to be done to ensure their safety and that they have the right nutritional support.
#FeedingthroughCOVID19
Today, we celebrate our incredible team of heroes!
During this COVID period, they have worked tirelessly, providing over 2,000,000 meals to children at home.
#Feedingthefuture
Schools reopen in January and school feeding programs will be critical in ensuring children go back and stay in school.
We’ll now be feeding an additional 20,000 kids from our 2nd modern,central kitchen, fitted to use 100% clean energy in Dagoretti South.
#Feedingthefuture
First day of
#KCPE2019
and we are all set to provide lunch to candidates across 16 schools, ensuring no child has to sit for their exams on an empty stomach.
#FeedingTheFuture
Throwback to our mega kitchen opening earlier this year!
Since then, we have opened another kitchen in Kiambu and Mombasa twasija tena.🎉😀
#Feedingthefuture
.
Everyday we are delivering over 30,000 smiles with the help of incredible team members like Evans. To Evans, he not only delivers quality meals but he delivers happiness. We are
#feedingthefuture
With each meal served, children are able to focus on learning and thriving. Our goal is to ensure no kid has to learn on empty stomach.
#feedingthefuture
"I have worked here for 5 months. I load food to the trucks.I enjoy this work because l earn a good living. By feeding children we're supporting Kenya’s future. We also save their time cause we serve them ready, hot meals."
You are looking at our Team Player 2021, Jack Onyango.🎉
Grateful. Honored. Inspired. 💚
Our feature in the 2024 TIME100 Most Influential Companies list is a reflection of all our collective efforts to end childhood hunger and improve nutrition for primary school children.
Thank you to
@TIME
for this incredible honor and to all our
The impact of a school meal opens a world of possibilities for children, their families and communities.
We are proud to be in Mombasa county serving +20K meals everyday.
#Feedingthefuture
Very proud of our work in Mombasa County!
Setting up this kitchen in 2021 wasn't without it's challenges but so proud that it now provides meals to over 20,000 children every day!
It's so great to see parents and our team speak about the impact here.
I love this video 😍
Paul Odoyo - Tailor.
"My tailoring business was doing okay but after Coronavirus came, we have no business. No one wants to order clothes. We can’t close the business, when you start a business you can’t give up."
#FeedingthroughCOVID19
The impact of a school meal is felt not only by the children we serve but by the economy as whole. From the jobs created, to the smallholder farmers that supply fresh food.
#Feedingthefuture
School feeding programs have far reaching benefits across the board.
From healthy children, improved class performance to overall national economic growth.
Nourished children = Better economy.
#Feedingthefuture
Laptops shut, cooking tools down, rest mode activated 😀
Time for a much needed break - excited to be taking our annual mental health break all week long.
#Feedingthemind
Schools re-open for the school year next week and we've been laying the ground-work to ensure more and more children have access to a nutritious meal everyday this year.
From expanding our team, to our first giga kitchen and new regions, we're excited to be
#feedingthefuture
.
How it started vs how it's going 😀
We are excited to be opening the doors to our 4th kitchen this Friday.
The 1st of many kitchens we have lined up this year.
We are
#feedingthefuture
.
New mega kitchen = more nutritious meals!
Our new kitchen will be utilising steam gas technology meaning more lunches, faster and efficiently.
#Feedingthefuture
.