10/12/2025
Transforming Youth Pathways: Expanding the Rift Valley Innovation Centre – Mwachon Into a TVET Institute
Mwachon Fundraiser
Every year, over 600,000 young Kenyans sit for KCSE.
Less than 150,000 get the grades to join public universities. That means more than 450,000 of our children – bright and full of potential – are told their grades have closed the university door.
If we keep measuring the worth of our youth only by Form Four marks, we waste the majority of our human resource. Mwachon refuses to accept that verdict. Here, a young person with a D-minus walks in and walks out two or one year later as a certified technician, digital marketer, refrigeration expert or construction foreman.
We don’t need to lower university standards. We need to raise the status of TVET so that no grade becomes a life sentence of unemployment.
That is why expanding Mwachon into a TVET institute is urgent. Every year we delay, another 450,000 young people are told their grades have disqualified them from a future.
Yesterday evening, we held a successful fundraiser graced by:
• CS National Treasury John Mbadi -Chief Guest
• CS Roads Davis Chirchir
• PS ICT John Kipchumba Tanui
• KNCCI President Dr. Eric Rutto
• Hon. Musa Sirma Mp Ravine
• Friends and supporters of Mwachon
The fundraising was over Ksh 70M
As I prepare to take over the leadership of Baringo as Governor, we will make all county-managed vocational colleges active again, expand enrolment, and provide on-the-job training and apprenticeship programmes for our young people. Today, we have fewer than a thousand learners in these colleges, yet the need and potential are far greater. That must change.
I am fully behind this vision. Grades should never limit dreams.
Thank you PS Eng John Tanui, Mr. Paul Limo and the entire Mwachon team.
