Startup Grind hosts Wawira Njiru (Food For Education)

Jun 16, 2017, 3:00 – 6:00 PM

Wawira, is the Founder and Executive Director of Food for Education. Having been raised in Kenya, she moved to Australia in 2010 to study a Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition and Food Sciences and graduated in 2013. She founded Food for Education in 2012 while doing her degree to address the inequality in education in her community of Ruiru Kenya due to inequality in food access.

In-person event

About this event

Wawira, is the Founder and Executive Director of Food for Education. Having been raised in Kenya, she moved to Australia in 2010 to study a Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition and Food Sciences and graduated in 2013. She founded Food for Education in 2012 while doing her degree to address the inequality in education in her community of Ruiru Kenya due to inequality in food access. She is interested in development issues, especially how access to food influences education outcomes. She has been recognised as a Spark* International changemaker 2012, Transform Nutrition ‘Nutrition champion’ 2013 and as an Ibua Africa Changemaker 2015. She has also been selected as a participant of the Leading in Public Life Programme 2016 by the University of CapeTown. She’s undertaking a Masters in Public Health at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.

Check out what happened

Speaker

  • Wawira Njiru

    Food4Education

When

When

Friday, June 16, 2017
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM UTC

Agenda

Networking and Food
Fireside Chat
Networking

Organizers

  • James Okoth

    Chapter Director

  • Shirley Kandabu

    Team Member

  • Sakina Hussein

    Healthy Basket

    Team member

  • Bernice Namulekhwa

    Offtherocks

    Team Member

  • Okado Nabwire

    Team member

  • Kimberly Anindo

    Team member

  • Salma Ibra

    Business Week Afrika

    Team member

  • Wangeci Kaingi

    Team Member

  • Kieran Ndege

    team member

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