Vihiga county authorities has provided scholarships to 158 learners who sat for the Kenya Certificates of Main Schooling (KCPE) in 2023 and are set to affix varied secondary colleges from right this moment.
The county has sponsored 94 boys and 64 women respectively, who’re brilliant however hail from economically deprived backgrounds by paying college charges in full, buying the required private objects, pocket cash, and fare for transport to succeed in their colleges.
Talking whereas flagging off the beneficiaries on the county headquarters, Governor Dr. Wilber Ottichilo challenged them to maintain wonderful efficiency to succeed in the best degree of training attainable.
He famous that they are going to be conserving monitor of the progress of every of them to make sure they carry out as anticipated.
Dr. Ottichilo said that the crew is the sixth cohort of the programme that started within the 12 months 2019 and has benefited 700 college students to this point.
He disclosed that the primary cohort are at the moment second-year college college students pursuing primarily engineering and drugs programs and are certain to work for the county authorities upon commencement.
The county head added that the transfer is geared toward boosting the human useful resource, significantly within the well being sector, the place there may be an acute scarcity of personnel.
By Sammy Mwibanda
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