Nairobi, April 8 -- Last year, when President William Ruto visited St Teresa Girls Secondary School in Nairobi's Mathare area, the learners cheekily asked Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja to add chapati to the menu of the Dishi Na County school feeding programme.

The request drew laughter, but it also sparked an idea that would later inspire two young innovators from Kajiado County.

Governor Sakaja pleaded with the Head of State to help him procure the machine, noting that he feeds more than 300,000 learners in Nairobi. The President, amused by the request, promised to buy the county government a chapati-making machine capable of producing one million chapatis daily to boost the programme.

"To add chapati in the school feeding...