A Nairobi school turns lunch scraps into compost — and a classroom for green jobs

On October 9, pupils at Wangu Comprehensive Primary and Junior School in Dandora, Nairobi, watched their schoolyard become a working waste-to-compost farm, built with Zoomlion Kenya to mark Mazingira Day. Organic waste that would have gone to dumps will now be composted for farming, while schoolchildren, young people, and women-led businesses learn compost-making and food-growing skills that could seed green enterprises. Nairobi County Woman Representative Esther Passaris joined the launch with the school's headteacher, Wachira Kagunya.