Bungoma County Woman Representative Catherine Wambilianga has officially launched the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF) Bursary Fund worth Ksh7.2 million that will be distributed across the 45 Wards to assist vulnerable children to access quality education.
According to the county MP, though the funds are not enough to cater for all students, she will try her best to assist the needy cases.
During the event at St Kizito Mayanja Mixed Secondary School in South Bukusu Ward, she pledged to continue advocating for the improvement of the education sector.
She also noted that through NGAAF, she will continue providing sanitary towels to girls, especially in the rural day secondary schools.
Wambilianga turned her attention to parents, emphasizing the critical need for their involvement in nurturing and guiding their children so that pressing issues such as teenage pregnancies are reduced or eliminated altogether.
In his remarks, the school principal Kong’ani Mabonga, who doubles up as the KESSHA chairman in Bumula Sub-county, urged leaders in the region to assist the school to procure more computers.
By Achola Bulimo Mathews
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