Kenyans with technical skills will be facilitated to work in various developed countries in a bid to lower the high rate of unemployment, the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Principal Secretary (PS) Dr. Esther Thaara Muoria has said.
This comes as the government continues to intensify efforts to ensure all technical institutions have the right equipment and teaching personnel to ensure trainees graduate with relevant skills which suit local and international market needs.
Addressing guests during the 50th marriage anniversary for educationist and entrepreneur Mr. Kithinji Kiragu at the Embu High Academy, the PS announced that a number of packages to export labour abroad had been signed between Kenya and a number of countries in a campaign under which the government intends to smoothen travel, work, payments and safety of the Kenyans once they moved to work abroad.
The government, she said, was determined fight unemployment of skilled people in the country and had launched campaigns to compile data about the employment opportunities locally, regional and in the diaspora before the actual export of labour commenced.
She said that the country was keen to start exporting labour abroad and under favorable conditions different from the sometimes unsuitable situations experienced by Kenyans who sought work in some Arabic countries.
Dr. Muoria noted that countries including Germany, Croatia, Austria and Australia had already shown potential to provide employment, adding that a wider scope of countries would be contacted and agreements signed.
The government, she assured, was keen to ensure all institutions had adequate personnel and due to limitations in allocation of financial resources, the first pack of 1,000 such schools would be facilitated to hire personnel while the remaining 3,000 would benefit under future budget allocations.
The PS advised the youth especially from Embu to restrain from abuse of alcohol and embrace TVET institutions to gain skills and knowledge that will empower them all their lives.
The county has been in bad books because of the proliferation cheap third generation alcohol whose abuse among the youth has been on the increase reducing the number of those enrolling in TVET institutions.
“I am urging young school leavers to stop wasting themselves in drug abuse and instead register for technical courses offered in various technical institutes where they will gain skills suitable of earning them employment locally and abroad,” said Dr. Muoria.
By Robert Nyagah
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