Wawira Njiru, Food4Education’s visionary founder and CEO, grew up in the community where she now serves. Studying nutrition at the University of South Australia, she began to understand the link between food and education, and returned to Kenya determined to close the education gap by making sure all children have enough to eat. She has over a decade of experience in creating school lunch menus and her unique insights have led to transformative change at Food4Education, building a team that’s been able to scale service delivery by more than ten times since 2022 and more than four times in the past year alone. She is a 2024 Skoll Awardee, a Mulago Foundation Rainer Arnhold Fellow and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.