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 a subsidized lunch that would normally cost 50-70 cents.
“This is very important in tracking, proving, and expanding our impact,” said Muendo, who is a passionate advocate for universal school lunches, making sure all students receive affordable—or free—nutritious food.
The data is stark. Some 26.9 percent of the Kenyan population is undernourished and 23.6 percent of children under the age of five are stunted, according to the 2022 Global Hunger Index (GHI), which ranked Kenya 94 out of 121 countries with sufficient data to calculate GHI scores.
