Our guest, Wawira Njiru is the founder of Food for Education in Kenya and UN person of the year 2021. Wawira tells us how her organization provides school meals to thousands of children in Kenya, an intervention that stops children from fainting or sleeping in school because of hunger. She also explains how Food for Education partners with the government and other stakeholders to scale up their impact and ensure sustainability.

Wawira also shares how she uses technology to support payments and operations in her program, adapting it to the local context and needs of the beneficiaries. She also gives some advice for locally led organizations on how to be successful in fundraising and the importance of alignment to vision/mission between funder and organization. She emphasizes the need for trust, transparency, and mutual learning in the funding relationship.