Food for Education | Wawira Njiru | 2024 Skoll Awardee | Marquee

Описание: About 90 percent of children in Africa don't get enough to eat – and children suffering from malnutrition are far less likely to keep going to school. Without an education, millions of children are held in a cycle of poverty. Despite decades of evidence that school feeding programs are an effective solution to childhood hunger, locally led school feeding programs are a rarity in Africa.

Food for Education (F4E) designs and operates a scalable system to feed children at schools and invest in local farmers and parents in the process. Developed in Kenya, the F4E model uses centralized kitchens, technology, and smart supply chains to deliver hot, nutritious, and affordable meals to nearly 300,000 school children daily.

F4E’s goal is to chart a path toward continent-wide school feeding access, leveraging government partnerships to scale and subsidize delivery of school meals to Africa’s more than 400 million children.

Skoll Awardee
Wawira Njiru is a trained nutritionist, seasoned social entrepreneur, and the Founder and Executive Director of Food for Education (F4E). Wawira is a talented leader who is passionate about solving problems in her community while building local economies and creating jobs. She leads F4E’s overall strategy of co-designing locally led partnerships with smallholder farmers, parents, logistics suppliers, and government to deliver efficient, nutritious, and affordable school feeding programs at scale.

Wawira has received numerous prestigious awards for her work. She was the first recipient of the 2018 Global Citizen Youth Leadership Prize presented by Cisco, the 2021 United Nations Person of the Year and the recipient of the World's 50 Best 2022 Icon Award. She is a 2021 Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum, a 2020 Ford Foundation Global Fellow, and a 2018 Rainer Arnhold Fellow.

https://food4education.org/

Visit the Food for Education profile page on Skoll.org: https://skoll.wf/3VNihnZ

Video Credits
Co-Director/Producer: Gabriel Diamond
Co-Director/Editor: Matthew Beighley
Executive Producer: Phil Collis
Camera: Brian Obra, Boniface Mwangi, Sam Soko, Gabriel Diamond
Story Advisors: Liviya David, Sheila Kibuthu, Kathie Paul Wilkerson, Ben Pyne

About the Skoll Awards For Social Innovation
The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Innovation each year to a select group of social innovators whose work targets the root causes of societal problems that are ripe for transformational social change.

https://skoll.org/about/skoll-awards/

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