MrBeast and Rockefeller Foundation Launch Regenerative School Meal Programs in Kenya and Ghana
Beast Philanthropy, founded by MrBeast, and the Rockefeller Foundation have announced a strategic alliance to implement 'regenerative school meals' programs in Bomet County, Kenya, and Ghana's Eastern Region. This initiative aims to provide daily lunches to approximately 4,000 children, five days a week, for five years. In Kenya, the program focuses on establishing school gardens for nutrition and regenerative farming education, creating a supply chain linking local fortified-bean growers to school kitchens, and utilizing solar-powered clean cooking. MrBeast's prior work in Kenya includes drilling boreholes, rebuilding Oloirien Primary with a kitchen, farm, and greenhouse in 2025, and adding classrooms at Nyakichiwa Primary in Bomet in February 2026. In Ghana, the effort targets ten schools in nine communities, emphasizing intercropping food crops among cocoa trees to supply school kitchens, directly supporting Beast Philanthropy's goal of reducing child labor on cocoa farms. The Rockefeller Foundation had...