Leaders in Nyandarua have welcomed development partners, donors and well-wishers, especially successful and wealthy people from the region to contribute to the region’s growth.
The leaders who included Governor Moses Kiarie Badilisha and Kipipiri MP, Wanjiku Muhia encouraged daughters and sons of Nyandarua who have succeeded in life in other parts of the world to fund development projects back home.
Speaking at Kabati Primary School in Kipipiri during the launch of seven classes which were constructed by an ex-pupil, Jane Njeri Yoder and friends of Messianic Hope International, Governor Badilisha promised that there will be no bureaucracies barring well-wishers from helping in public development.
Yoder works and lives in the United States of America but decided to lobby her friends through the church to uplift her old school which was largely the same as it was when she was schooling.
Governor Badilisha promised to make sure that every coin donated through such initiatives was put to the intended use.
“I promise you that every coin contributed through this project and any other similar initiative will be put to good use to change the lives of learners in our primary schools,” he said.
The two leaders promised to start a mentorship programme in collaboration with several universities and scholarly experts for children in the area to guide them on their career progression.
Muhia observed that children in Nyandarua were going to school without proper career guidance or role models to emulate.
She observed many children have received scholarships from very noble organisations only for them to drop out of school at Form Two or Three.
She added that even those who progressed through high school ended up back in the villages without proper career advancement.
“I have plans to start working with friends at University and Kenya Methodist University and other people of goodwill in this mentorship programme which will involve children from primary and secondary schools,” said the MP.
Muhia said that plans were underway to organise local scholarships for smart but needy learners in the area to ensure they all proceed to college and university levels.
“My office will work with school head teachers to design the mentorship programme, the sessions should be scheduled either during the first week of the term or the last,” she said.
Muhia said the learners in the area of jurisdiction would be segmented into set groups according to their education years.