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Development worker Schröder, refugee Maru in a hydroponic greenhouse in Kakuma, Kenya
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Stefan Kleinowitz / DER SPIEGEL
Some call them the "Crazy Kids".
Some in their industry roll their eyes as soon as they come.
With their weird ideas, with their neon-colored post-its, with their apps and Instagram accounts.
They wear t-shirts with a hashtag on them: #disrupthunger.
When they arrive, something new should be created, they say.
When they arrive, so the plan, a bit of future begins in the international fight against hunger.
A Monday morning, 9:30 a.m., weeks before Corona reaches Africa.
Nina Schröder and her Munich colleagues land with a United Nations propeller plane on the short runway at Kakuma Airport in northwestern Kenya, one of the largest refugee camps in Africa.
Schröder, 39, says of herself that she is an absolute "foodie" obsessed with pickles, salads and the latest food trends.
The evening before she came from London, where she presented her work at the Welthungerhilfe board meeting.
Now the Dipolm clerk has exchanged her suitcase for a camouflage-colored backpack with a small bottle of hand disinfectant dangling from it.
It is her third mission to Kakuma.
"It's good to be back," she says.
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