Locally sourced
Every ingredient is bought from a farmer within 40km of the kitchen. We pay above market rate on a 90-day standing order.
Feeding Programme
A hot meal, every school day.
A hungry child cannot learn. Our feeding programme delivers one nutritious meal per school day to 38,000 children across 14 African countries — cooked by community kitchens, sourced from smallholder farms within a 40-kilometre radius.
21M
Meals served since 2018
38k
Children fed daily
640
Smallholder farms supplying
100%
Locally sourced
How the programme works on the ground.
Community-cooked
Each kitchen is staffed and managed by parents from the school, paid at a living wage. We provide the equipment, training and food-safety oversight.
Nutritionally calibrated
Menus are designed with district nutritionists to hit 100% of recommended daily calories and 80% of micronutrient needs for primary-age children.
Field story
"Before the kitchen, my children went home at lunch and many didn't come back. Now they stay all day — and my husband and I sell our maize to the school. It's the first steady income we've ever had."
— Grace Wanjiru, parent and farm supplier · Eldoret, Kenya
Where this runs today
- Kenya
- Uganda
- Tanzania
- Rwanda
- Ethiopia
- Malawi
- Zambia
- Ghana
- Côte d'Ivoire
- DR Congo
Related programmes
Fund the a hot meal, every school day..
A monthly partnership keeps this programme running in fourteen African countries.