{"id":203760,"date":"2026-01-11T13:58:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=203760"},"modified":"2026-01-11T13:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:58:40","slug":"the-blueprint-for-serving-a-million-school-lunches-every-day-wawira-njiru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=203760","title":{"rendered":"The blueprint for serving a million school lunches \u2014 every day | Wawira Njiru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a genius combination of smart tech, local food and bold partnerships, Wawira Njiru and her nonprofit Food4Education have gone from serving 25 children in a makeshift kitchen to becoming a cornerstone of Kenya\u2019s school meals system, delivering half a million meals every day. Hear her plan to feed a million kids daily in Kenya by 2030 \u2014 and two million more across Africa \u2014 as she offers a blueprint for the rest of the world to follow&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/go.ted.com\/wawiranjiru\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a genius combination of smart tech, local food and bold partnerships, Wawira Njiru and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203760-the-blueprint-for-serving-a-million-school-lunches-every-day-wawira-njiru.jpg",1050,591,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203760-the-blueprint-for-serving-a-million-school-lunches-every-day-wawira-njiru-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203760-the-blueprint-for-serving-a-million-school-lunches-every-day-wawira-njiru-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203760-the-blueprint-for-serving-a-million-school-lunches-every-day-wawira-njiru-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203760-the-blueprint-for-serving-a-million-school-lunches-every-day-wawira-njiru-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203760-the-blueprint-for-serving-a-million-school-lunches-every-day-wawira-njiru.jpg",1050,591,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203760-the-blueprint-for-serving-a-million-school-lunches-every-day-wawira-njiru.jpg",1050,591,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203760-the-blueprint-for-serving-a-million-school-lunches-every-day-wawira-njiru-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203760-the-blueprint-for-serving-a-million-school-lunches-every-day-wawira-njiru-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203760-the-blueprint-for-serving-a-million-school-lunches-every-day-wawira-njiru-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}