The blueprint for serving a million school lunches — every day | Wawira Njiru

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

With a genius combination of smart tech, local food and bold partnerships, Wawira Njiru and her nonprofit Food4Education have gone from serving 25 children in a makeshift kitchen to becoming a cornerstone of Kenya’s school meals system, delivering half a million meals every day. Hear her plan to feed a million kids daily in Kenya by 2030 — and two million more across Africa — as she offers a blueprint for the rest of the world to follow. (This ambitious idea is part of The Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

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0:00.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:12.1	I'm your host, Elise Hugh. Feeding one million kids daily in Kenya by 2030 and two million more across Africa?
0:19.4	Now that is great math.
0:22.2	In this talk, Food Trailblazer Warira Nijiru shares how her organization, Food for Education,
0:28.9	is changing the script on what is possible.
0:31.9	There are innovative solutions taking place across Africa,
0:34.9	which can serve as a blueprint for feeding children sustainably and at
0:38.4	scale. It's time, she asks us, to reimagine the continent not as a crisis zone, but as the source
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