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How a 20-year-old student started a nonprofit that feeds over half a million schoolchildren in Kenya a day
Wawira Njiru founded Food4Education, a nonprofit that has served over 100 million meals to students in Kenya since its inception. Started in 2012 by feeding just 25 students daily, Food4Education has grown to become Africa’s largest locally led school feeding program. The idea took hold when Njiru was a 20-year-old international student in Australia and…
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