• 11 months ago
Kisumu County Assembly Speaker Elisha Oraro has donated shoes and sanitary towels to 178 students joining Form 1 in Kisumu North Ward.
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00:00 Genevieve Hope, another girl child, received.
00:05 Michael Otino, boy child, yeah.
00:13 Congratulations. Congratulations, Femi.
00:19 We are gathered here today in North Kisumu Ward for a ceremony that we have been doing every year since 2019.
00:28 When I was still the MC of North Kisumu Ward, I think that was after 2019, I initiated a program where we are awarding shoes.
00:39 I mean pupils who perform well in KCPE, in primary schools.
00:45 We are targeting public primary schools and private primary schools.
00:50 Where in the public schools we give awards to students who score 330 marks and above.
00:57 And in private schools 350 marks and above.
01:03 This is the fifth time we are doing this initiative or this ceremony.
01:08 And today we have a total of 176 beneficiaries who scored 330 marks in public primary schools and 350 marks in private primary schools.
01:21 We are gathered here, guardians and parents of the said beneficiaries, headteachers or the authorities of the said beneficiaries.
01:31 That is the schools where they are studying, where they start for exams.
01:35 And we are with also the beneficiaries themselves.
01:39 Now, in addition to the shoe, we have also given dignity keys that is a gift to all the girl child who start for KCPE.
01:51 Taking them for one term only.
01:55 We have also given bar stops, there are those who are given four figure mathematical tables and sets.
02:02 This one is a boost to the parents and they can testify to that.
02:07 That the economy has gone so high, life of living has gone so high.
02:12 And you realize that one pair of shoes cost between 2,500 to 2,600 shoes.
02:19 And that could be so costly for some of the parents.
02:23 Now they acknowledge that this one is a boost to them.
02:29 And that now they are going to start only for school fees and school uniform excluding the shoe.
02:38 I am very grateful for the awards that Honorable Speaker has given for us.
02:43 Because it will motivate the others who are coming next.
02:47 And I am so grateful that I am going to get a new shoe.
02:51 That I am going to join again for more and I am going to be like other people.
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