But by the end of this year, the government will have introduced a new column on that infant medical record — one that captures another developmental milestone: the baby’s height.

While it might seem odd to focus so intensely on how tall your baby is now, there is an ominous underlying reason. The government’s Department of Family Health made this switch in response to alarming data from the 2008/9 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, which indicated that nearly a half of all Kenyan babies born in the past five years are ‘stunted.’

That term includes their height and, by extension, their brains, which are deemed under-developed for their ages.

Daily Nation article dated 25 October 2010: Jitters over high number of stunted babies

Wanji’s Food Industries is an international and leading branded, value-added healthy food company.

The idea to start the company was inspired by the work of our charity organisation, Peter Kahihu Foundation that finances the education of less privileged children in Kenya. It was realized that education may not add value to some of the children who due to bad nutrition in the early years, their growth and development was below average.

A subsequent market research identified the lack of good quality and healthy convenient foods in the market. Wanji’s Food industries was thus founded on the promise of offering the consumer a wide range of healthy, great-tasting and fun convenient foods that fit into a healthy lifestyle yet offer the taste and convenience of popular foods.

Wanjis is the fruit of a concerted effort by top Nutritionist and Food Scientists who are concerned about the increasing nutrition emergencies in developing countries.

We are a social enterprise driven by the desire to eliminate malnutrition in developing countries.

All our profits are ploughed back to research on nutrition and to increase our capacity to respond to nutrition emergencies.

The company aims to:

1. Provide quality and highly nutritious supplementary and therapeutic foods to developing countries, which are equivalent in efficacy and performance as those available in developed countries but at a much lower cost.
2. To make available these products to populations most in need of these foods in ways and means that are convenient to them.
3. Maeke maximum use of locally available food materials that have high nutrient levels in order to support local farmers. We pay a fair price for these raw materials.

We use ingredients that are highly nutritional so that the food remains a healthy treat for all at any given time of the day or year.

Goal:-
“To deliver nutrition to millions”

Vision:-
“To be the most trusted healthy foods company”

Mission:-
“To improve lives through nutrition”