Wawira Njiru's TIME100 Next Gala Toast

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Wawira Njiru, the co-founder and CEO of Kenya-based nonprofit Food4Education, began her toast by reminding the room that while it often feels like the future is built by new inventions, technologies, and machines, it is actually built by people. “The most valuable resource on this planet has never been the things we extract—oil, or gold, or data. It's the things we grow. The things we nurture,” Njiru said. “And right now, the world's largest reserve of it is sitting in African classrooms.” Food4Education delivers over 600,000 meals each day to children across more than 1,500 schools across…

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