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US-based NGO will partner with Murang’a county government in equipping
polytechnics with the tools to assist the youth to acquire technical skills.
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To Kids International which has constructed water tanks in various schools in
Kiharu has entered into a pact with the county government to equip the
polytechnics with the equipment to accelerate the learning.
Project
coordinator Karanja Mburu Wamatangi said they have enough equipment for the
institutions that the government will construct in the villages.
Speaking
at Muchungucha village in Kiharu when the organization handed a permanent
house built for a poor family, Wamatangi said the donor is ready to support the
government on the improvement of technical education.
Wamatangi
who is a director at Lamu Port South Sudan- Ethiopia- Transport (LAPSET)
Corridor project said the demand for technical skills was high thus the need to
partner with other agencies to promote the youth.
“The
technical skills are best paid in the western world thus need to prepare our
youth for such through the delivery of the much-required equipment,” said
Wamatangi.
Already
the organization has sent a team of volunteers led by Mr Ryan Macdonald to
train the youth in various fields that include masonary, motor vehicle repairs,
tailoring among others.
Ryan
said they are focused to supply the equipment to all the
institutions Murang’a County Government will build.
“There
is a need to prepare the youth for the intensive labour market that awaits
them, that is why the organization is ready to partner and import the equipment,”
said Ryan, a mechanic by profession.
During
the function, Kiharu residents pushed for the split of the constituency
saying it deserves as it had not been considered in the past.
They
told Wamatangi it has been proposed that the constituency be split along the
Kayahwe River to create Kiharu and Kahuro constituencies for equal
representation and increased resources.
There
is a competition between constituencies of Gatanga and Kiharu which will
benefit owing to their large populations.
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