TEDx Talks · How I Built a Machine That Feeds Millions | Felix Brooks-church | TED

1. 1. Food fortification—adding vitamins and minerals to staple foods like flour, oil, and salt—is the most efficient way to get nutrients to people, and it's a proven science about 100 years old.
2. 2. Hidden hunger—malnutrition from lack of essential nutrients despite full bellies—affects 3 billion people globally, with children suffering the most severe consequences like stunting and delayed brain development.
3. 3. Sanku's solution is the Dosifier, a simple, lightweight machine that attaches to small grain mills and automatically adds precise amounts of nutrient premix to flour as it's milled.
4. 4. Sanku scaled from reaching 1 million people in 2020 to 75 million people daily today by installing SIM cards in dosifiers for real-time monitoring and operational efficiency.
5. 5. MacKenzie Scott's $8 million unrestricted grant in 2020 was catalytic because Sanku invested it in infrastructure—an all-African exec team, East Africa's first premix factory, and technology for scale—rather than overhead.
6. 6. Sanku's new public vision, '10 10 1,' aims to scale to 10 countries and reach 1 billion people over the next 10 years, leveraging government mandates for fortification across Africa and Asia.
7. 7. The speaker's personal motivation comes from his son Leo, an autistic child with an extreme eating disorder who was wasting away until his wife added vitamins and minerals to his pancake mix, transforming his health and development.