Six years ago, at the request of friends living in Northern Kenya, we started an emergency lunch program for a pair of schools edging the Chalbi desert.
Northern Kenya has a severe and rugged beauty: volcanic rock alternating with vast swaths of sand and soil bleached the color of sun.
This part of the country is fully arid, an amplified version of the hunger and heat we’re familiar with at our schools in the south. In 2023, we expanded to five schools...

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