Delivering Vital Nutrients At Scale
Sanku builds the technology and local supply chains that enable millers to fortify flour with essential vitamins and minerals, helping tackle hidden hunger across Eastern Africa.
We’re a social enterprise working with mills of every size, from small village millers to large flour producers. Our model makes fortification simple, affordable and scalable, delivering vital nutrition through the foods millions of people already eat.
Sanku’s reach has grown tenfold in three years, to 67 million people. Over the same period, the philanthropic funding needed per person per year has fallen from $0.55 to just $0.10.
“MacKenzie Scott’s unrestricted gift was an inflection point.”
Felix Brooks-church, CEO
We can end hidden hunger
Hidden hunger affects three billion people: diets that fill stomachs but lack essential vitamins and minerals. The consequences are severe, holding back brain development and the earnings that follow it, weakening immune systems, and harming mothers and babies.
There’s a solution. Fortification is one of the most evidence-based and cost-effective health interventions there is, and it has been standard practice in high-income countries for decades. We see it every day, in our cereal, milk and salt. Across most of Eastern Africa, the infrastructure to deliver it at scale has not existed.
We’re building it, working at the mill, in the space between the farmer and the family. We partner with thousands of millers across Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia, supplying both the dosing technology we invented and the nutrients from Eastern Africa’s first premix factory, which we built in Tanzania. Donor support funds the next Dosifier, the next country expansion, and ultimately our goal of reaching one billion people across ten countries in ten years. Watch the TED Talk to learn more.
WATCH Felix Brooks-church, Sanku co-founder, at TED2026
What We Do
The Dosifier, reaching the last mile
We invented a device that fortifies flour automatically as it’s milled, on mills of every size, right down to the last-mile villages.
The factory, made in Eastern Africa
We built Eastern Africa’s first nutrient premix factory, so the nutrients are made locally and sales help cover our running costs.
Government partnerships, made to last
We work with governments to bring small mills into national fortification policy, so the gains hold beyond any grant.
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Why our model works at scale
Reaching more people, at a lower cost
In three years, we’ve scaled tenfold and brought the donor cost per person down by 82 percent.
Hand-drawn chart for the Sanku homepage. A solid orange curve shows people reached rising from 7 million in 2023 to 73 million in 2026. A solid grey line shows donor cost per person falling from $0.55 to $0.09 over the same years. The Tanzania premix factory opening in 2024 is marked below the climb.
We used MacKenzie Scott’s $8 million unrestricted gift in 2021 to build Eastern Africa’s first nutrient premix factory, expand from Tanzania into Kenya and Ethiopia, and grow our team.
Felix Brooks-church, CEO
Built and run from Eastern Africa
All of this work is built and run from Eastern Africa. Sanku has 140 staff, 96% of whom are Eastern African nationals, and 86% of senior leaders are from and based in the region.
We intentionally hire from the communities we serve, creating a model built on proximate leadership. Country operations are led by local teams who know their mills, regulators, and communities firsthand. They speak the languages, navigate the regulatory environment, and manage the relationships that make fortification work every day.
This local ownership is one of Sanku’s greatest strengths. It makes our model more effective today and more durable as we expand into new countries.
Support Our Work
We’re seeking funds for the next phase of our 10-10-1 vision: ten countries over ten years, and one billion people reached. Donor capital builds permanent assets: the dosing technology, premix factories, and distribution systems that scale.
Your gift installs a Dosifier at a mill that will fortify flour for thousands of people for years.
For partnership conversations, due diligence questions, or anything else. Felix and the team are available directly.
Have questions? We’re here.
We’d be glad to talk.
