Kiambu County Governor Kimani Wamatangi has announced that his government will increase bursary allocation for secondary and college education to Kes 500 million from Kes 300 million in the next financial year.

Wamatangi revealed that the county has now tripled the bursary allocation from Kes100 million in February to an additional Kes100 million in June and another Kes 100 million in November, making it Kes 300 million, thereby removing financial obstacles that hindered countless needy children from accessing education.

“Kiambu is among the highest counties on the allocation of bursaries in the country, and come next January, we will be issuing the bursaries at an upward trend of Kes 500 million, and I want to categorically say here that the minimum bursary to be allocated will be Kes 5000 per student and not Kes 2000 as before,” he said.

Additionally, he said that his administration has initiated the construction of 180 modern ECDE centers with PP1 and PP2 classrooms, offices, ablution blocks, and playgrounds, and this marks the first step in modernizing all 524 ECDE centers in the County within three years.

The Governor said that a feeding program for ECDE pupils has also been introduced, noting that children will receive a bowl of porridge daily, three boiled eggs weekly, and a packet of milk every Thursday to boost their potential to learn and thrive.

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“The three eggs, the governor said, will be distributed and sold to the County Government at Kes 18 for an egg, and this will be done by women who have been empowered through a program of providing them with one-month-old local breed chicks.”

“We aim to distribute 120,000 chicks across 12 sub-counties and target these women as future egg suppliers to support our ECDEs feeding programme,” the governor said.

Still, in the education sector, Wamatangi said they have revived the stalled Vocational Training Centre (VTC) construction to enable skill development and empower the youth.

“The plan is to establish a VTC in every ward, ensuring avenues for youth to acquire technical skills,” he said.

Moreover, he said that the county will also donate used vehicles to the youth to be used for training for those undertaking mechanical courses.