Wawira Njiru

We have built Africa's largest green kitchen in Nairobi, feeding 60,000 kids a day.

But the key to this work is working hand-in-hand with governments.

Although it's hard, as a truly African and local organization, we've been able to partner with our government for long-term sustainability.

When governments commit to school feeding, it can mean real kitchens, real budgets, and real policy changes.

It can mean instead of a child relying on an NGO that might go away tomorrow, they can rely on something greater, a public commitment to their right to food and education.

We want to see that across Africa.

We are redefining what school meals can and should be.

Since that first tiny kitchen feeding 25 kids a day, we've served over 100 million meals.

We will feed a million kids a day in Kenya by 2030, and two million more through our work with African governments to make school feeding programs sustainable and scalable.

Today, one in eight people in the world are African, like me.

By 2050, we'll be one in four.

These kids are the future global workforce.

We're feeding a future where kids will know hunger only as a fleeting sense of anticipation and not a constant state of being, a future where all African kids can live up to their potential.

But this is not just a Kenyan story or an African story.

It's the world's.

How we feed our kids determines the kind of planet they'll inherit.

And if we get it right in Africa, the place where humanity began, we might just show the world the way forward.

Thank you.