Wawira Njiru, is a Kenyan entrepreneur, nutritionist, and philanthropist, who serves as the executive director of Food for Education, an organization that serves a hot, nutritious and affordable school meal to over 33,000 public primary school children in the urban and peri-urban areas of Kiambu, Nairobi and Mombasacounties.

She grew up in the town of Ruiru, in Kiambu County, immediately northwest of the capital city of Nairobi.

[2][1] In 2012, while pursuing her undergraduate degree at the University of South Australia, Njiru hosted a Kenyan-themed fundraising dinner where she invited 80 guests, charged them $20 per plate and managed to raise the equivalent of Ksh.

[3] The organisation uses a hub-and-spoke system whereby meals are prepared in central kitchens (hub) and distributed through systematised logistics to schools (spoke).

Their technology-centered approach allows parents to pay $0.15/meal via mobile money and primary school students with their NFC smartwatches connected to a virtual wallet allows them to 'tap to eat' in under 5 seconds.