Youths dancing in a public event.[Photo/nation.co.ke]
Kiambu County department of education, culture, and social services intends to launch a programme aimed at tapping talents from the youth, women, and people living with disabilities.
Kamenu MCA Chege Waithumbi says the programme will identify and nurture various talents in the county with an overall goal of empowering the participants starting from the new year.
"Talents pay very well nowadays. This county great talents in music, drama, comedy, theatre, poetry, culture, just to name but a few yet they remain under-utilized for lack of an elaborate framework where we can tap these talents," he said.
He added: "Our plan will be to identify and nurture talents. This will go along way in addressing the problem of unemployment especially among our youth both in the long and the short term. The issue of alcoholism will also go down as we are also targeting most of the recovering alcoholics."
Chege who was speaking on Sunday at St Mulumba Catholic Church Makongeni in Kiambu County said the pilot programme will start in Thika and Kabete sub-counties after which it will be rolled out in the other parts of Kiambu after testing its viability.
He said that cultural centres will be set up thereafter in every sub-county where the talents can be identified and nurtured.
"We are already renovating a hall in Thika Town at a cost of Sh10 million that will be used by the best talents in the county to showcase their prowess, especially on weekends. This way, they can earn through gate charges or through being invitations to perform in social events by both the corporates and individuals," he said.