Felix Brooks Church

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TED Talks Daily · How I built a machine that feeds millions | Felix Brooks-church · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

I spent an entire year on this dirt floor metal shop, banging out devices until I had something that could be installed.

I covered hundreds of mills across East Africa, literally dragging that machine across borders, meeting hundreds of millers and learning from them and co-designing.

Because we knew if it could work here in a village in Nepal,

in a village in Malawi, in Tanzania, in Kenya.

It could work anywhere.

And by 2015, we had our machine.

They commercialized it.

We call it the Sanku Dosifier, because it doses.

And it's super simple, super lightweight, and automates the process of adding life-saving nutrients into the flour that people eat every single day.

The way it works is simple.

The miller adds raw grain in the one side.

In the dispenser is a condensed powdered form of nutrients.

Just think about your daily vitamin.

If you were to crush that up, it becomes powder.

Exactly the same thing.

As that raw grain flows out of our machine and into the mill, that loss of weight is detected and automatically triggers a little feed screw to turn and dose a precise amount of premix every single time.

Those nutrients and that grain flow together and gets mixed in the actual mill and out comes fortified flour.

It's that simple.

So, we weren't just building a machine, we were also trying to build a company.

and there was tens of thousands of mills.

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