The Roskern Foundation work with a digital mobile platform that allows lunch lines to move fast, and school and government officials to track the students they are reaching. Students wear a bright orange smart wrist band, which is linked to a virtual wallet. With the Tap2Eat platform, parents contribute the equivalent of 15 cents per day for […]

At Kuraiha recently, lunchtime looked like this: the scent of warm, fresh food, the chatter of excited voices rippling down two long lines that formed outside the classrooms. Large eyes in small faces watching closely as rice and mung beans (known locally as green grams) are spooned onto plates, some pushing bites into their mouths […]

Rosaline Wanjiru Gitau completed high school as a C- student, but it’s not because she wasn’t smart or didn’t have dreams. Her grades suffered because there was never enough to eat. “Concentrating was hard,” said Rosaline, 47, who grew up one of nine children. “I was always hungry.” Rosaline thought a lot about cooking. In […]