•Feisal Nasir Bare has been enrolled at Mahatma Gandhi University and will be undertaking a Bachelor of Computer Applications and Imran Ibrahim Noor will study Bachelor of Business Administration at Punjabi University.
•According to the Kenyan law, education for children is a right.
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Three families in Ijara, Garissa county have a reason to smile as they are among those who have been awarded a scholarship.
This is after Ijara MP Abdi Ali awarded scholarships to three youths to study in India.
"On my commendable passion towards fostering education and empowering the youth, I have proudly secured a Free scholarship for three promising students to pursue their dream courses in the Republic of India under the India Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)," he stated.
The beneficiaries of the scholarships include Ayub Hassan Farah, who will pursue Bachelor of Computer Application at the University of Mahatma Gandhi .
Feisal Nasir Bare has been enrolled at Mahatma Gandhi University and will be undertaking a Bachelor of Computer Applications and Imran Ibrahim Noor will study Bachelor of Business Administration at Punjabi University.
The scholarship will fully cater for academic and tuition fees, accommodation costs and medical expenses during the entire duration of their courses.
Ijara MP noted that the schorlaships are a pure illustration that financial barriers do not hinder the pursuit of education for any talented and deserving individuals.
"I'm hopeful that these students will realize their potential by pursuing their dream courses and will later be useful to themselves, their families and society in general," Ali added
According to the Kenyan law, education for children is a right. The Basic Education Act of 2013 states that every child has a right to free and compulsory education.
Going to school, therefore, is not a choice, but an obligation and every parent or guardian must ensure his or her child goes to school, failure of which might lead to prosecution.
Unfortunately, most children from pastoralist communities lack this opportunity. Insufficient infrastructure for education has been a challenge to easy access to education for children in the marginalised areas.
The education challenges in the Northern parts of Kenya have been in existence, however, the National government inclusive of leaders have making strides to ensure the situation changes in years.