In a move to equip graduates with essential skills to curb unemployment in Uasin Gishu County, the department of education and sports is taking the lead.
On Thursday, the department carried out a youth entrepreneurship training at the social hall to provide background information on the importance of basic businesses, planning, skills of writing CVs, registration of businesses and interviewing skills.
The training targets university and middle-level college graduates across all sub-counties in Uasin Gishu County. The exercise was in full swing with graduates from Soy, Turbo and Moiben Sub-counties as the first to be lead through the drill.
The county executive for education, culture, youth affairs and social services Enock Muigei said the county government came up with the initiative of training graduates after identifying available opportunities for the youth.
Muigei said there was need for the high number of graduates to venture into various activities that can earn them credit unlike waiting for employment.
”We are calling upon you that you need to move from reserve zones and look for opportunities in the urban areas. Embrace competence and creativity so that you secure employment opportunities which the county government has in place,” noted Muigei.
Sub-counties administrators’ chair David Busienei said the county government of Uasin Gishu has gone a milestone in youth training's which the county comprehends as the best time they engage in advising youth on how they can utilize the attained skills.
He added that counties population carries a lot of youth and therefore need for training since they are the future ambassadors of the county.