Food for All Africa

If selected as winner of the Elevate prize, we would be using the funding  to scale our Lunch Box School Feeding initiative to 30 additional schools. Scaling the Lunch Box School feeding initiative would enable us to achieve the following objectives. 

• To set up daily supply of one hot meals per day to school children in deprived schools currently not covered by Government school feeding program.   
• To support deprived schools to setup and operate their own school feeding initiative managed by School Authorities, Parent Teacher Association and School Management Council.
• To establish school kitchens for schools in Ghana to have safe and hygienic spaces for preparation of school meals.
• To provide support for unemployed mothers to have a means of livelihood by working as caterers for their children’s schools.
• To empower schools and community organizations across Ghana to have access to affordable food procurement and flexible payment plans.
•  To provide safe spaces and hygienic conditions for school children to have school meals.
• To mobilize private sector support towards improving school meals across Ghana

I started Food for All Africa in 2015 after coming into contact with a mentally disabled man who pick leftover foods from trash bins to feed his colleagues on the streets. His actions inspired me to start West Africa's first and largest food bank in Ghana.

Food for All  leverages on mobile technology to connect a world of excess to a world of need by recovering quality edible surplus food from the consumer goods supply chain and distributing it to community organizations that serve the poor and needy. More than 80% of the food recovered is nutritious food.

Our aim is to serve Ghana and help those in need by specializing in anti-food waste  and hunger reduction.

As part of our programs,we launched a school feeding program in 2016, establishing school feeding kitchens in the poorest and unreached primary schools in order to provide a daily hot nutritious meal to students throughout their school year. It aims to provide nutritious meals to enhance the students' health and encourage them to attend school and increase their ability to concentrate and comprehend in class. Lunch Box covers schools that are currently not under Government of Ghana’s school feeding program.

School feeding programmes have been a key response to the recent food and economic crises and function to some degree in nearly every country in the world. School feeding is a multi-sectoral intervention with effects across education, health and nutrition, and with the potential for benefits across a life course

According to WFP State of School Feeding 2020 report, 73 million children do not have access to school meals. 2.3 million Ghanaian do not have access to school  meals,a situation which is increasing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic which led to school closures.

 Food for All Africa in 2016 started the Food for All Ghana School Feeding program working with 12 schools both public and private basic schools in low income communities to provide free and subsidized school meals to children

In an effort to ensure school children get access to food support whiles at home during the lock down, we worked with School authorities to deliver food bags on monthly basis within their homes.

In anticipation of re-opening schools,we carried out an assessment on its school feeding program and scaled to 25 deprived schools across  five regions of Ghana are benefiting from one academic year supply

LunchBox School Feeding Initiative is a private sector led school feeding program that helps vulnerable and food-insecure children to get the education they desperately need to build a life free of poverty. 

We provide a nutritious daily school meal to children who would otherwise go hungry. This meal encourages children to attend school and enables them to concentrate and learn while they are there. Children are supported – from pre-school, through to primary school. Our model of investing in putting up a school kitchens, provision of one year supply of ingredients and training of caterers  ensures our beneficiary schools are able to  effectively run their own school meals.

For sustainability, FFAA regularly source for funding to enroll on new beneficiary schools

We also provides credit facilitation for food and groceries procurement for schools and community organizations to buy bulk food at very affordable prices and an arranged monthly payment plan.

  The project also expresses a special recognition of the immense efforts of school meals as a means of empowering children to get access to education, and this is exactly what provides the basis for the financing model of the program, where companies, supermarkets, but also private individuals can donate

• Set up project infrastructure
  • Engage Ghana School Feeding Program, Ghana Education Service, District Education offices within 5 regions and other project partners
  • Collect data on schools currently not under Government school feeding program
    • Physical and human resource infrastructure
    • School PTA, SMC and Assembly men engagement
    • Kitchen space - Adherence to food safety guidelines
  • Set up system for cooking and delivery of ingredients monthly to schools (including school menu planning)
  • Training on menu and chosen recipes and how the system will work (with support from Food Nutritionist)
  • Begin food preparation and distribution to school children in beneficiary schools
  • Set up Steering Structure
  • Set up Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system
• Capacity development
  • Provide regular training on food safety for cooks.
  • Train on Infection, Prevention and Control for COVID-19 guidelines
  • Promote peer learning among cooks (e.g. localized menu and recipes plan).
• Set up of funding system and fundraising campaign
  • Set up financial and accounting system to ensure transparency
  • Work on a fundraising campaign to ensure sustainability. Run fundraising campaign (e.g. Crowdfunding, Mass Media, Social Media etc.)