The Mountain Journal
UNESCO Regional Office for East Africa has selected MKU and University of Nairobi to participate in a 03 plus initiative designed to help the students , with guidance and counselling skills to soldier on in life, despite the emerging challenges in their way.
In the concept, the learners will be equipped with guidance and counselling knowledge to enable them to concentrate in their studies.
In the programme, the students in the two leading institutions will work together, in efforts to end the emerging gender based violence a trend reported among the learners and which has distracted learning.
MKU Vice Chancellor Prof Deogratius Jaganyi in his address in the forum held at the University of Nairobi the programme dubbed our right, our lives, the future will compel towards the well being of the learners for the benefit of the education and the institutions.
The programme to be implemented at MKU Thika Campus, the home of more than 15,000 students, the Vice Chancellor said, was ideal for the two institutions, and joint participation was required in a view of widening the relationship.
He detailed that it unfortunate that there are challenges pulling the students out of education, thus denying them the possible empowerment and personal edification.
“In this regard, the O3 Plus or Our
Rights, Our Lives, Our Future Project, is a very significant
intervention. We are all aware of the many distractions facing
our students both at the campuses as well as youth at in all
realms of their lives,” he said
In the interest of the neighbouring youth
The contents of this project upon
implementation at the universities, he observed that it could also be rolled out, with a few amendments, to benefit other youth who are also out there in our communities and who also require this kind of intervention.
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