The ADM Cares programme will provide more than 184,000 meals to over 200 students at Starehe Girls’ Centre and School over the next academic year.
Tests found some grain samples contained aflatoxin levels up to 50 times above the legal limit, renewing concerns about food safety and public health in Kenya.
The initiative will place more than 200 acres under sunflower cultivation and connect farmers to edible oil and livestock feed markets.
Large volumes of duty-free maize entering Kenya from regional markets have cut local grain prices, raising concerns about farmer incomes and future production.
This localized intervention directly targets immediate nutritional deficiencies while simultaneously easing the economic burdens currently pressing down on vulnerable households within the agricultural, rice-growing region of Mwea.