National | GENERATIONAL CHANGE Feb 11, 2018
Kind act sprouts into grass-roots movement to feed kids
by Alex Martin
Hiroko Kondo is credited with coining the term kodomo shokudō: makeshift eateries for disadvantaged kids that morphed into a national grass-roots movement to address the growth of poverty in Japan. But when the 58-year-old first opened her humble "children's cafeteria" in a residential backstreet in ...