We listen. We organise. We build. From understanding the problem to testing what can work, our programmes turn student experiences into lasting change.
Why we exist
There is a side of university life we do not talk about enough.
Students are expected to learn, participate and succeed, yet some are navigating university without reliable access to food. Campus hunger does not always look like someone starving. Sometimes it is a skipped lunch, a delayed allowance, or a student trying to concentrate through hunger.
From student experiences to lasting change.
If universities understand campus food insecurity, students are empowered to participate in solutions, practical interventions are tested, and institutions and partners are brought into action, then food security can become part of how universities support student success.
Activities
Research student food insecurity and document lived experiences.
Outputs
Student food insecurity is documented through research and student experiences.
Outcomes
Universities and stakeholders better understand the relationship between food insecurity and student success.
Goals
Build the evidence needed to understand campus food insecurity.
Outputs
Ambassadors and student networks engage in food-security action.
Outcomes
Students participate in shaping and advancing solutions to the challenges they experience.
Goals
Position students as participants and leaders in solving the problem.
Activities
Develop and test practical food-security solutions.
Outputs
Meal access, campus gardens and nutrition interventions move from ideas to practice.
Outcomes
Universities and partners can see what improves student food access.
Goals
Develop practical, dignified and scalable approaches to student food security.
Activities
Work with universities, researchers, technical experts and other actors.
Runs across every programme
Outputs
Universities and technical organisations participate in developing solutions.
Outcomes
Food security begins to enter conversations about student welfare and success.
Goals
Help universities integrate food security into the wider student success agenda.
Outputs
Stakeholders come together around campus food security.
Outcomes
Evidence, students and partners begin moving toward shared solutions.
Goals
Build a national movement around food-secure higher education.
This work is already moving. Each programme puts part of our theory of change into practice.
Building evidence around student food insecurity in Ugandan universities.
Hands-on nutrition sessions where students learn to eat well on a student budget.
Piloted at Kyambogo University · 25 April 2026
Explore the programme: Campus Nutrition SeriesBuilding student leadership across campuses.
Testing a more predictable way for students to access meals.
Exploring food production with students, on campus.
Moving campus hunger into institutional and national conversations.
Campus Food Security Summit · 21 October 2026
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