Kenya is launching Africa's biggest school meals programme

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CMelon on July 5th, 2023 at 13:53 UTC »

Meanwhile, US Republicans: “Nope!”

ouijanonn on July 5th, 2023 at 11:22 UTC »

This is great. Maybe the UK can learn from this and not let children go without food in schools

SunCloud-777 on July 5th, 2023 at 11:05 UTC »

Under the new scheme, 250,000 children living in the country's capital Nairobi will receive a hot meal every day, starting in Aug.

The new programme will cover children from 225 primary schools and Early Childhood Development centres.

"We believe that no child should go to school on a hungry stomach," said Joan from the Food4Education team.