By Obegi Malack
The National and County governments have been challenged to put more effort in supporting boy-child education.
Sauti ya Vijana Organization Secretary Joyce Thairu said the governments have concentrated on girl ignoring boys.
Thairu had held a boy mentorship workshop in Ngong’s PCEA Enchoro Emmuny attended by more than a thousand boys from surrounding primary schools from Kajiado North Sub County.
She said the workshop is held each year .The boys are taken through cleanliness matters, drug abuse issues among other matters beneficial to their development.
Most schools in the country have no mentorship programmes for boys and most teachers are ladies.
She wants the government to employ more male teachers to fill the gap.
“I saw a gap, the boy child has been left out we need to encourage and support all our children, this will ensure that they are in same levels,” she said.
School administrators should also allow professionals in school to teach the boys on better ways of living.
She added that drug abuse has been reported in most schools and most boys end up in streets due lack of mentorship programme.
