Tutors from Kabarak University Institute pleaded with youths, who failed to join Universities or colleges, to enroll into Technical Vocational Education and Training in order to achieve their dreams.
They were speaking to over 60 youths from different areas in Rongai Constituency, who had visited the institution to explore on the opportunities ahead on Wednesday, 26 February 2025.
The group had spelt their thirst by inquiring the institution through a their leaders for an orientation to help them in making their decisions and reviving the lost spirits since they didn’t grab their spaces in the various varsities like their friends.
Executive director at Kabarak University TVET Institute Dr Dan Mutai urged the youths to take up the challenge by weighing in on the importance and the consequences of braving yourselves with skills that will place you somewhere in the society.
“Research have been done and it is known that an individual makes 39,000 in a day, these decisions are critical in your life. If you don’t make your decision now, it means you are postponing a problem. Therefore you need to make a decision and save your future with a skill or two,” Dr Mutai said.
Dr Mutai insisted that, having one or two skills from as a youth will place you at a good position in the society and by determining your future you can achieve whatever you ought to when you were in highschool.
“We need to reflect and see what we want to do today and the days to come so that you can be like others.Either you become an employer or and employee in the next stage of your life,” He added.
This move by the institution is set to tap a huge group who have always been left behind in the village after filtering out the best for university and colleges or those who dropped out and had ambitions to make it to some point in life.
According to Dr Mutai, as an institution,they have subsidized the cost of enrolling in short courses in a bid to enable the underprivileged to secure a position.
“For us it is only KSh 17,000 per term which is an affordable price that one can raise as compared to the other institutions who offer the same courses at a higher cost,” He posed.
The event Orgernizers led by Mr Steve lauded the move by Kabarak University TVETS in subsidizing the courses and offering such training events. They urged the National and County government to champion more on equipping TVETS institutions across the country so that youths can acquire skills to meet job market.
“The government should come in by empowering the training institutions that we have around, support young people by giving them scholarships in terms of school fees and other needs,” he claimed.
He argued that most of the youths have lost hope in life since they couldn’t afford to join or continue with either highschool or campuses and have retorted to drugs and other vices in the community like prostitution, and by helping them enroll into the courses will change their minds and future.
Additionally, Rono slammed the government for neglecting the youths claiming that they should have placed them on the forefront in their plans and secure a better future as a nation.
“If we don’t talk about TVETS yet we need the to take up the skilled jobs, if the government don’t support these institutions, who will? Yet we always complain about them being idlers and drug addicts,” Rono posed.
Rono slammed key figures in the government especially those in devolved government for failing to appeal to their promises to the Kenyan Youths, calling them out to join in the force and have the youths learn a skill or two so that they can thrive through the tough economy.
This comes amid the push by the president to have youths harness the abroad jobs as a way of creating employment. the government had promised to secure more job opportunities outside Kenya for the Kenyan youths but it is yet to be achieved.
