Our purpose
Our purpose
Our purpose is to liberate through nutrition. To provide people across Africa with the life-sustaining nutrients they need to thrive.
We do this by properly fortifying staple foods, because there's no better vehicle to nourish our nations than the foods we all consume on a daily basis.
By making these foods nutritional, accessible and affordable, we can eliminate malnutrition in Africa. And its people can fulfil their potential.
The burden we work against
1 in 3
African children under five experience stunting from undernutrition.
61M
Children across the continent affected by chronic malnutrition.
9 of 10
Most cost-effective health investments are fortification programmes.
$1 : $9
Estimated return per dollar invested in food fortification.
A system of impact
Our brand purpose isn't a slogan. We built the Southern Lodestar Foundation and the Lodestar Centre of Excellence as the two institutions that make it operational — knowledge that travels, foods that nourish, mouths that get fed.
- 01Pillar
Fuel Knowledge
The Lodestar Centre of Excellence is a centralised knowledge hub and training network. We work with global leaders in food security and nutrition, sharing collective IP through hands-on training for key industry stakeholders across Africa.
- 02Pillar
Fortify Foods
Millhouse applies global expertise to the formulation of premium micronutrient and vitamin blends. We support our clients through specialised equipment and software that guarantees a superior end-product.
- 03Pillar
Feed People
The Southern Lodestar Foundation manufactures and distributes fortified staple foods to hungry children across South Africa. Our goal is to serve 1 million meals to those in need on a daily basis.
Our goal through the Southern Lodestar Foundation is to serve one million meals to those in need every day.
A continental responsibility
Fortifying staple foods is the most cost-effective public health intervention available to an African nation. It is also the most quietly transformative. We do not market it loudly — we just build it, every day, from KwaZulu-Natal to Nigeria.
When sugar carries vitamin A, when maize carries iron, when salt carries iodine — children grow, adults work, economies expand. The unit of measurement is not kilograms. It is potential, realised.
