The world is today commemorating the Day of the African child whose theme this year is "planning and budgeting for Children's Rights: Progress since 2010." The theme focuses on assessing how African Union member states have integrated children's rights into their national plans and budgets, and encourages further action to adopt a child rights-based approach.
The government has been actively involved in school feeding programs, with a national strategy aiming for universal coverage by 2030 and in expanding the School Meals Programme (SMP) to reach 10 million learners, up from the current 2.6 million.
Food4Education, a Kenyan nonprofit organization that provides nutritious, low-cost daily school meals to vulnerable children has called on African governments and global partners to push school feeding to the top of their budgets and agendas.
In partnership with Kenya's government and local communities, Food4Education operates a network of high-efficiency kitchens using a hub-and-spoke model and last year opened Africa's largest green-energy "Giga Kitchen," a 3,000 m² facility that uses clean-burning briquettes and steam to cook 60,000 meals a day.
