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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.
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July 30, 2025
TED
The blueprint for serving a million school lunches — every day
Sometimes feeding just one child can seem challenging. Not for entrepreneur Wawira Njiru, who’s gone from serving lunch to 25 children from a makeshift kitchen to establishing her nonprofit, Food4Education, as a cornerstone of Kenya’s school meals system. Currently serving half a million meals to children every day, she’s now thinking even bigger. Hear about her incredible plan to serve delicious, nutritious daily meals to millions of kids across Africa by 2030. (This ambitious idea is part of The Audacious Project, TED’s initiative to inspire and fund global change.)
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