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"When we first shouldered the challenge of improving nutrition for the children in Kenya, it seemed like an unattainable dream.
However, today we provide nine million smiles and improved nutrition education outcomes to school children across the country," saysawira Njiru, founder and executive director of Food for Education.
Njiru, who grew up in Kenya and attended local schools, started the organization as a university student after she first learned about the impact of poor nutrition on children, according to the World Economic Forum.
Today, Food for Education provides nutritious meals to more than 50,000 children daily in Kenya and around the world.
"Too many children go to school hungrynot only in Kenya but around the globeand this has detrimental effects on their ability to grow and learn," Njiru says.
"I wanted to create a solution to this."
She started the organization as an initiative to feed 25 children through a run-down kitchen, but it has since grown to provide meals to more than 9 million children around the world, according to the World Economic Forum.
Njiru is one of 13 young leaders from around the world selected for the Young Global Leader (YGL) program, which aims to create a new class of empowered young entrepreneurs.
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