To date, Sanku has already helped more than 380 millers to fortify their flour, feeding over two million people daily. With support from Cargill and the WFP Innovation Accelerator, Sanku has thus far signed up an additional 21 millers, across nine districts in three regions in Tanzania, installed 24 dosifiers, produced 119,000 kilograms of fortified flour, and reached another 18,000 people.
The goal is to continue to expand the use of fortified flour throughout Tanzania (especially in the Southern Highlands region, where the prevalence of chronic malnutrition surpasses half the population) and beyond in East Africa, while increasing the capacity to reliably and cost-effectively supply millers with empty flour bags, which is critical to the sustainability model.
As a possible second phase of the sprint with WFP, Sanku is investigating the ability to manufacture its own flour bags by purchasing a printer and plate maker. The goal is to produce lower cost bags, have more control over the timing delivers, and ultimately avoid a situation where a miller goes without the tools to do the critical job of fortifying their flour.
To reach the next stage of scale, Sanku needs more investors and donors. To scale the program to reach another one million people in Tanzania in 2020 would require approximately USD 1.1 million in additional funding.