Food4Education is now calling on the government to come up with policies that will end classroom hunger across the country.
In celebration of the 2025 Day of the African Child, the Kenyan-based NGO said the government and its partners must deliberately push the school feeding programmes to the top of their budgets and agendas.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer Wawira Njiru said the government must make bold steps in ensuring that no child learns hungry with an aim of making school feeding a right and not a privilege. "The stakes are higher than ever; we cannot afford to see child malnutrition and socioeconomic growth as separate issues.
We know well-nourished children perform better in class, but when school feeding is locally rooted, we also create jobs, support smallholder farmers, and strengthen local economies," said Ms Njiru, adding, "If we want to build a prosperous country for our children, this is where we start." Ms Njiru argued that Kenya Kwanza's government must embed sustainable finance and enabling policy that supports public investment and daily operations.
