Rarieda Constituency National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) has issued bursary cheques worth Ksh 11.8 millionto to students in tertiary institutions.
Constituency fund accounts manager Kennedy Chacha disclosed that the bursary support will benefit over 900 tertiary students from the constituency studying in various technical institutes, teacher training colleges, and universities across the country.
According to Chacha, the NG-CDF has a clear data base of all the students who will continue to benefit from the support and do not need to send applications every year because their details had been captured previously.
“For Rarieda Constituency, we have kept the data of all our students in our secondary schools and colleges because they had applied before, we don’t need them to re-apply for bursary support since we already know their details and most importantly we keep tracking them in their colleges and secondary schools. The applications are only open to new students who are not on our database and we keep enrolling them for support,” Chacha clarified.
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Speaking at the Funds offices during the release of the cheques, the Fund Accounts Manager highlighted that a lot more focus is trained on improving and supporting the training of local students taking up courses in the tertiary institutions in the constituency.
Rarieda TVC has benefited immensely from the NG- CDF since its establishment. The constituency fund under the patronage is sponsoring hundreds of trainees drawn from the region in taking up courses. In the latest support, the fund gave the institution 1.6 million shillings for the bursaries alongside other infrastructural support.
“We encourage the community members to visit the Rarieda Technical Vocational College in Mahaya and grab the training opportunities. As a constituency we have resolved to assist our students from the local communities who enroll at the TVC with bursaries so that they are able to acquire skills and competencies and be able to change the society,” he outlined.
Chacha said that the bursary cheques for the instituons outside the constituency will be sent directly through the staff and that beneficiaries will be notified and that the full list of the benefitting student will be available for the public in all chiefs/ass. Chief’s offices including at the constituency office.
Other Vocational Training Centers in the constituency including Mahaya VTC (Kshs. 288,000) also benefitted from the bursary support.
By Erick Nyayiera
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