Wawira Njiru is the Founder and CEO of Food 4 Education, a social enterprise on a mission to eradicate childhood hunger in Africa and unlock the potential of a new generation, one hot, nutritious, and affordable school meal at a time.
A trained nutritionist and seasoned entrepreneur, Wawira is the architect behind F4E’s blueprint to scale sustainable school feeding in Africa. Designed to be locally rooted, scalable, and replicable, this innovative model works in partnership with smallholder farmers, parents, logistics suppliers, and government to deliver excellence from source to spoon. Under her leadership, the organisation has grown from feeding 25 children in 2012 to serving more than 450,000 children a day and counting in 2024. Today, F4E directly employs more than 4000 people – mostly parents – and impacts thousands of businesses across local supply chains in Kenya with plans to expand across the continent.
Eastern and Southern Africa
