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African Cities Research Consortium
Action research spotlight: Healthy school meals in Nairobi
31 minutes Posted Mar 17, 2025 at 7:00 am.
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School feeding programmes are a vital safety net for vulnerable children, providing them with healthy and nutritious meals that they might otherwise miss out on. Such initiatives are not new and have run in Kenya in different forms for decades; in Nairobi, for example, the county government has an existing school feeding programme in public schools. But the current programme does not apply to informal private schools, meaning that the majority of children living in the city’s informal settlem...