Some empires are built with five-year plans and venture capital. Wawira Njiru began with 25 hungry children and a kitchen in Ruiru. Fresh out of university in Australia with a nutrition degree and no clear plan, Wawira wanted to do something, anything, for the children back home in Ruiru. School feeding was not the dream. It was simply what urgently needed to be done at that time.
That was 2012. Today, Food4Education feeds 600,000 children daily across 1,500 schools in 13 counties. The organisation processes 100 tonnes of ingredients every day and has delivered over 100 million meals. It employs 5,000 people. Some of those original 25 children now work for her.