Food fortification is the most cost-effective way to end one of the world's most devastating problems. Every penny of support counts, since it costs as low as $0.55 per year to provide one more person with lifesaving nutrients.
Our vision is that every meal, consumed by every mother and child, contains lifesaving nutrients, forever.
Using Smart Technology to End Malnutrition in Africa
OUR TECHNOLOGY
Technology can reach thousands.
Smart technology reaches millions.
Our IoT-enabled Dosifier machine adds precise amounts of critical nutrients to flour, eliminating human error. Sanku monitors millers' use of the Dosifier remotely via the machine's cellular link and visits mills if a Dosifier needs repair, as well as to restock the millers' nutrients and empty flour bags.
OUR BUSINESS
We are a non-profit social enterprise
Our primary goal is not to make money, but rather to give children and adults access to food that is
fortified with essential vitamins and minerals.
Therefore, we lend our dosing machines free of charge to small and medium millers in East Africa.
Sanku offsets the cost of the millers' nutrients by bulk buying empty flour bags, which we then sell to our partner millers to pack their flour. The margins from each flour bag sale are enough to offset the cost of the millers' nutrients, and at scale, they will ensure that we achieve operational sustainability.
8,000 children die every day due to malnutrition.
DID YOU KNOW?
2.3 billion
people do not achieve their physical and intellectual potential because of vitamin and
mineral deficiencies.
Micronutrient deficiencies
are the leading cause of intellectual disability in children, preventable blindness among
adults and maternal death during childbirth.
Food fortification
is one of the most cost-effective interventions for fighting malnutrition with every $1 invested having a return on investment of $27.
Mama Anna works at Chapa SS Mills in Dar es Salaam Tanzania.
Here she is cleaning maize in preparation for milling.
STORIES
Pink bags = nutritious meals at Lina Mills, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
STORIES
Ruth is one of our very first Kenyan millers. She owns Grainora Mill which supplies
customers within Nairobi's informal settlements reaching thousands of people every day.
STORIES
OUR IMPACT
Your generosity enables children to access essential vitamins and minerals.
$0.35
cost per person / year
10.5 MILLION
we currently reach with fortified flour across East Africa
30 MILLION
number of people we will be reaching daily by 2026
100 MILLION
number of people we aim to be reaching by 2030
Sanku Fortification:
A Family's Story
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