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Originally published by Capital Newstop
October 27, 2025
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Feeding the Future: Inside Kenya’s Green Kitchens Revolutionizing School Meals
Food for Education has turned the simple act of feeding children into a lifeline that keeps them learning. - Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today | Capitalfm.co.ke..
✨ Key Highlights
Food for Education is revolutionizing school meals in Kenya, providing daily nutritious food to thousands of pupils while championing environmental sustainability and local economic development. This initiative ensures children stay in school and learn, demonstrating how large-scale meal provision can be both impactful and eco-friendly.
- The organization prepares over 600,000 meals daily for pupils in public primary schools across 13 counties.
- Food for Education operates 173 kitchens, including 28 centralized, 68 semi-centralized, and 77 decentralized facilities.
- The Giga Kitchen in Kibera uses eco-briquettes made from compressed sawdust and organic waste, burning two tonnes of these daily to reduce carbon emissions and cooking times.
- The program has served over 150 million meals since its inception and supports 5,000 smallholder farmers by sourcing all products locally, except rice.
- A lab associate, Dan Makwata, stated they test 8,000 bags of cereals per term for quality and safety.
- Children pay a maximum of Sh15 daily using a smart wristband linked to a digital wallet, enhancing transparency and reducing misuse.
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