Safaricom, through the M-PESA Foundation, has launched Citizens of the Future, an education initiative to improve education and training outcomes in Kenya over the next five years.
The program seeks to upgrade infrastructure, enhance teacher skilling in ICT across over 600 institutions nationwide, and award scholarships to over 10,000 students in senior secondary and tertiary institutions over the next five years.
“We have developed education interventions that seek to bridge the gap through innovation and material support. Under the Citizens of the Future Program, we are consolidating our initiatives to ease access to education from early learning to technical and vocational training in an initial investment of about KES30 billion in the next five years,” said Peter Ndegwa, Chief Executive Officer, Safaricom.
The programme will develop “Schools of the Future” model schools with modern infrastructure, integrated with technology to enrich the educational landscape and enable learners and teachers align to the shifting needs of the new socio-economic order.
Safaricom aims to complement Kenya’s education system, which still faces challenges, from inadequate capitation to a lack of teaching materials, hampering the improvement of learning spaces and corresponding infrastructure that support requisite skilling to match human-capital requirements of the digital age.
Kenyans will have a month to nominate a learning institution of their choice through https://www.citizenofthefuture.org/ with deserving schools shortlisted from the set criteria to award beneficiaries.
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