Photo: Peter Yeung
Nairobi’s Giga Kitchen may look like an 18th-century factory. But in the 32,000-square-foot warehouse on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital city, steam produced by a pair of two-ton machines powered by “eco briquettes” is channeled to cookers, and electric vehicles zip by. Food4Education’s 19 kitchens in Nairobi now provide subsidized meals to all the city’s 216 public primary schools, offering universal school feeding for the first time to nearly 350,000 kids per day across seven of Kenya’s 47 counties. CEO Wawira Njiru was inspired by an Indian school lunch program that feeds two million children daily. Thousands of local small-scale farmers supply produce, and around half of the servers are parents, often mothers. Kids pay for their subsidized lunches — sold at just 5 Kenyan shillings, or about $0.04 — using smart wristbands provided by the program.
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