They share a name. They share a mission. And now, they share something else – neither of them burns firewood anymore. Stepping Stones has two campuses. One in Ngoingwa. One in Makongeni. Two neighborhoods, two kitchens, two sets of students waiting to be fed every day. For years, both kitchens ran on the same fuel: […]

There is a moment – quiet, unremarkable – when a school kitchen lights its last firewood fire. No one takes a photograph. No one makes a speech. A cook simply turns away from the woodpile, walks to a steel machine that stands taller than she does, and presses a button. At Ndima kanini Academy, that

Feion Green Ventures Ltd proudly recognizes Youth4Climate (Y4C), an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), for their strategic support of the Jiko- Kul Initiative: Accelerating Institutional Electric Cooking through Demonstration, Piloting, and Market Outreach. Through this partnership, Youth4Climate has played a catalytic role in advancing youth-led climate innovation while addressing one of the

Setting the Stage: Why Solar Cooking Matters  Across Kenya, school kitchens remain the silent frontier of energy poverty. Every day, thousands of litres of beans, rice, and maize simmer for hours over smoky firewood stoves — consuming over 1 million tonnes of firewood annually and straining both school budgets and our forests. The result is