Evalyn Speaks at Nourishing the Future

This conversation looks at one of the most urgent intersections in global development: the inseparable link between what children eat, what they learn, and what they are allowed to become. It’s about more than feeding and teaching — it’s about giving children the knowledge, the dignity, and the belief that they have a role in shaping the world they are inheriting.

Speakers included a Kenyan school founder who teaches orphaned children to grow food using climate-smart agriculture; a Fulbright teacher from Cincinnati who has woven the UN Sustainable Development Goals into daily classroom life; a UN Food and Agriculture Organization nutrition specialist; a UNESCO Chair in Food Biodiversity and Sustainability from Canada; and student voices from Bangladesh and Argentina sharing what adults in the room aren’t hearing clearly enough.

Together, they explored what it means to nourish a child — in body and in mind — in a world where food, learning, and the future are all at stake at once.