{"id":221936,"date":"2026-01-26T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-the-ivorian-entrepreneur-feeding-young-minds-in-abidjans-schools\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:30:13","slug":"cote-divoire-the-ivorian-entrepreneur-feeding-young-minds-in-abidjans-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-the-ivorian-entrepreneur-feeding-young-minds-in-abidjans-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: The Ivorian Entrepreneur Feeding Young Minds in Abidjan&#8217;s Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em> Seeing the shortcomings of catering in local schools, an Abidjan entrepreneur created a chain of restaurants for schools and colleges &#8211; filling children&#8217;s bellies so they can fill their brains. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;Initially, I trained in mathematics and computer science, then I retrained in professional cooking at the Bassam hotel school and launched my own business &#8211; a catering company &#8211; as a self-taught chef,&#8221; explained Krys Digbehi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">He chose school catering because of the demand. &#8220;According to the latest&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601260007.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing the shortcomings of catering in local schools, an Abidjan entrepreneur created a chain of restaurants for schools and colleges &#8211; filling children&#8217;s bellies so they can fill their brains. &#8220;Initially, I trained in mathematics and computer science, then I retrained in professional cooking at the Bassam hotel school and launched my own business &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":221937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[26221,258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,10796,13318,6800,1218,12243,257,6756,254,7720],"class_list":["post-221936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-abidjans","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-entrepreneur","tag-feeding","tag-ivorian","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-minds","tag-news","tag-schools","tag-south-africa-today","tag-young"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}