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A Kenyan startup is now shaping how an entire nation feeds its children, and this is exactly the kind of African-led solution the continent has been waiting for. Food4Education, the Nairobi-based firm behind Nairobi County’s Dishi na County<\/strong> school meals initiative, has signed a four-year partnership with Zambia’s Ministry of Education to overhaul a national school feeding programme that serves millions of learners \u2014 and the details of this deal reveal just how serious both sides are about getting this right.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This is not a donor-driven handout dressed up as partnership. The agreement, signed on Sunday following discussions that began in August 2024 and a Zambian delegation’s study visit to Kenya earlier this year, places full financial and implementation responsibility squarely on the Zambian government. Food4Education’s role is purely advisory and technical \u2014 which means Zambia owns this, and that ownership matters enormously.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

What Njiru and her team have built in Kenya \u2014 a data-driven, operationally rigorous approach to getting affordable meals to schoolchildren at scale \u2014 is now being exported not to Europe or America, but across the continent. That is the story. African expertise, solving African problems, on African terms.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The next time someone tells you African governments cannot build systems that work, point them here.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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