Empower 175 students for food security in Kenya

The youth polytechnics opened school for their first term in January 2018 after long December holiday.  During the December holiday, it was a bit dry and they did not have many activities in their gardens during the period.  Most of them had schedules on members responsible to visit the school during the holiday and address some of the project issues.  This worked quite well and when they all resumed in January, they were able to continue with their duties.  Currently all the schools are preparing their gardens in readiness for planting during the long rains expected in March/April.  We will be supporting them with seeds and planting materials since they don’t have planting materials as they were not able to do seed banking last year due to prolonged drought resulting into low yields.  We are also discussing with the school administration on possibilities of digging shallow wells in some of the schools so as to improve the current water problem in most schools.  We hope to initiate fundraising activities to support some of the schools’ projects addressing the challenges affecting the clubs.  To tap the students’ talents and available opportunities, we have agreed to work closely with the school administration, tutors, government sectors and other institution working with the youths so as to build the capacity of the tutors and students to ensure that the youth benefits from the available opportunities.  We are optimistic that these opportunities will benefit our youths and will be eye openers for them even after they finish their courses and they will have somewhere to start.  Agribusiness is one of the opportunities that we want to inculcate into all youths and since most of them have developed a lot of interest it will be our starting point.  Thank you for the support this far and we invite you to walk the journey of supporting our youths with us.