EU to support Kericho County youth get scholarship opportunities
Kericho Governor Eric Mutai on Thursday welcomed the support of EU Ambassador to Kenya Henriette Geiger to offer scholarships to the youth who have the potential to advance in education abroad and also secure jobs thereafter.
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00:00 And we've been able to have a number of discussions.
00:03 One of the discussions we've been able to explore
00:05 is an appreciation, is a willingness
00:09 to partner with Ganger County
00:11 in speaking to issues of unemployment of our youth.
00:14 Through her support and through her network,
00:16 through the European Union, we have had a discussion.
00:18 We are going to put in a proposal
00:20 and be able to submit to our offices
00:22 on the following issues.
00:23 Number one, we will have a discussion
00:27 on the scholarship for our youth.
00:29 She indicated to us that the European Union
00:32 has a huge opportunity for the graduates that we have.
00:36 As you are aware, in Kirijo County,
00:38 just like many other counties,
00:40 we have so many graduates who are unemployed
00:42 and they're jobless.
00:43 And as a county, we've been always looking
00:46 and trying to identify how we can tap in
00:49 to the potential of these youths.
00:50 Recently, we've been able to employ close to 300 interns
00:54 who are actually graduates from the university,
00:57 but do not have any sense of meaningful employment.
01:00 To this extent, we appreciate the extension of the EU
01:03 that we can work together to be able
01:05 to get scholarship abroad
01:07 and be able to get even job opportunities abroad
01:10 for the many of our youths who are unemployed
01:12 and they have graduates.
01:14 - We also discussed a lot about opportunities
01:19 in the agricultural sector.
01:22 And the EU has several projects
01:27 working with young people and women
01:32 to make agriculture profitable,
01:35 to run agriculture like a business
01:38 and to make good money out of it.
01:41 So we do that with grants, loans, technical assistance.
01:46 And I think in Kenya, 60% of the workforce
01:52 is still absorbed in the agricultural sector.
01:56 And I'm convinced, and we have seen that
02:01 with several examples and conversations,
02:06 that there can be good money be made
02:10 in the agricultural sector with the right skills
02:15 and the right assistance.
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