TERTIARY:Wamatangi to help in equipping Polytechnics in Kiharu

A US-based NGO will partner with Murang’a county government in equipping polytechnics with the tools to assist the youth to acquire technical skills.

Can 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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