Mavoko Constituency Development Fund (CDF) office has disbursed cheques worth Shs14.1 million bursary fund to 1,600 needy but bright students in the constituency.
Addressing members of the public and beneficiaries during fund disbursement at Athi River town CDF office on Friday, Mavoko Constituency MP Patrick Makau said the move is expected to help to promote secondary education in the region.
Makau said that his office was committed to ensure that orphans and vulnerable children from the constituency access secondary education.
Makau said the fund has been fairly distributed in all wards in the constituency depending on levels of need in each ward.
"The fund has been fairly distributed to orphans and vulnerable students in all wards within Mavoko depending on numbers of the children and levels of need in each ward," said Makau.
The MP called on all parents and the entire Mavoko Constituents to be vigilant to parents or children caretakers who deny their children right to education.
Makau urged other leaders who manage educational bursaries such as the Ministry of Education and Ward Bursary Funds from National and County Governments respectively to disburse the funds to the needy students without discrimination.
The legislature called on area chiefs to identify needy orphans from locations within the constituency who were at home due to lack of secondary school fee so as to get four years educational support from the Makau Foundation which he said was already supporting education of other students in their entire secondary lifetime.
He congratulated students from the region who sat the 2014 KCSE examinations for exemplary performance revealing that Mavoko Secondary School became the top school in the sub county.