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Where school meals became hope for many household

Food4Education programme in Dagoretti South. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Every weekday at noon, a long line forms quietly at St. Jerome Emiliano Ramula Preparatory School in Seme Sub-County.

Hands clutch on plates as children wait patiently, some after walking for miles under the sun. For many of them, the steaming plate they receive is the only hot meal they will eat that day.

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