The project, which will begin in August 2023, will build ten new kitchens to initially provide 400,000 daily lunches to children in 225 primary schools and early development centres in the capital. Food4Education already supplies meals to 150,000 schoolchildren in the city.
According to The Guardian, Kenyan President William Ruto commented: “We must eliminate the shame of hunger in our country. We will be deliberate and focused in ensuring successful implementation of the school feeding programme. The greatest indignity is for our children to go to school and fast because of lack of food.
“We are going to match counties who have a plan on school feeding programme, shilling for shilling, and if we do that we can actually feed 8 million children in our schools.”