More than 50,000 primary and secondary schools operate in Kenya, with over 90% still using firewood to prepare meals. That dependence places pressure on school budgets and forests while exposing children and kitchen staff to harmful smoke. Mary Muinde, Chief of Staff in the Office of the First Lady, described clean cooking as an issue of health, education, environmental protection and dignity. Ambassador Ali Mohamed, Kenya’s Special Envoy for Climate Change, said the initiative could shift institutional clean cooking from a donor-led intervention into a structured investment opportunity. “A boarding school in Turkana may require a different solution from a day school in Kiambu.