Vocational training institutions have devised ways to impart tertiary skills to the youth in the villages, who are unable to enrol in the government institutions owing to various hurdles.
Besides offering them various artisan skills, vocational centres have incorporated indigenous knowledge in an effort to preserve rich culture threatened by extinction.
One such centre has been established in Laikipia in a partnership between Laikipia North Technical and Vocational College and Indigenous Movement for Peace Advancement and Conflict Transformation (IMPACT), Community based organization to reach out to the vulnerable groups.
Speaking during the first cohorts of 47 youths, who have graduated from Maiyanat Indigenous Youth Life Skills and Cultural Development Centre in Laikipia North Sub- County, Jason Njane, Head of the Institution, said that incorporating indigenous knowledge in the curriculum would ensure it passed on to the next generation. "We have realised local communities are rich with indigenous knowledge, which have remained largely untapped and undocumented, which we have incorporated in our curriculum," said Njane.
