It’s hard to learn anything on an empty stomach. In Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp, which has more than 165,000 mouths to feed, rations are limited. Many children go to school hungry.
Mama Safi, a Congolese refugee and baker, decided to do something about it.
Every weekday, 250 glistening loaves emerge from two wood-fired ovens in her backyard. Her employees deliver the loaves on motorcycle taxis to the Angelina Jolie Primary School in Kakuma Camp. The bread finds its way onto the lunch trays of students, who chow down on it with vegetables and beans.
Forty-five-year-old Mama Safi always had a passion for baking, although it took her a while to turn it into her bread and butter. She arrived in Kakuma in 2011, after a harrowing year-long journey—by foot, boat, and minibus—to escape conflict in Eastern Congo.
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