Much has been done to boost education among the youth in Kenya.
The former president, Mwai Kibaki fought to achieve his goals of introducing free primary education. This led to many people going to school, old and young.
With the increased number school going children, the government had more challenges of distributing textbooks to schools. The few textbooks that were available at that could not be used by all pupils because they were fewer than the number of scholars.
The introduction of ‘Tusome Project,’ which is funded by United States Agency for International Development and British Department for International Development, has changed things in a positive way.
The organisation has purchased English and Swahili textbooks which have been distributed to 20,000 schools nationwide.
The exercise has cost sh5.38 billion as revealed by the Education PS, Belio Kipsang. He said this at Jogoo House during an education development meeting on Wednesday. He revealed that the move is now targeting to introduce mathematics books for class one and two pupils.
Kipsang said this will help the children get a good foundation in the subject which will help them love mathematics in future.