Kalobeyei settlement, north-west of Kakuma refugee camps, is now home to 38,000 people, most of whom fled conflict in South Sudan. The settlement is designed to bring refugees and local communities together in a mutually beneficial relationship. School children make up more than one third of the settlement’s population: 14,000 young children attend the three primary schools in the settlement.

WFP is providing a hot meal to the schools’ learners, which is funded by the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa as part of the Kalobeyei Integrated Social and Economic Development Plan.

A catering challenge Until recently, Kalobeyei settlement primary school was the only school in...