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So, I started school. Life was more challenging than I expected. \u00a0 I would get up before daylight, tend the cows for 2 hours, walk 2 kilometers to school and then return to the fields in early evening.\u00a0 Lunch wasn\u2019t provided at school, so I ate only breakfast and dinner.\u00a0 As a growing boy, I lived every day with intense hunger. I stress this because it is the degree of poverty that still afflicts too many in my community.<\/p>
I passed all my undergraduate exams and went on to university in Nairobi where I studied Information, Communication and Technology.\u00a0 After university, I had opportunities but something drew me back home. This is where, for the first time, I saw clearly the degree to which many of our young, talented, caring men and women are trapped by poverty because they lack education, work skills and, ultimately, employment. In Africa, where there are many intractable problems, I recognized that these problems could be solved in our community.\u00a0 And I, as one of the lucky ones, had an obligation to lead.\u00a0<\/p>
In 2016, I set out to build Nyamboyo Technical School, a vocational center, which opened with our first cohort of students in January 2019.\u00a0 This school, which I hope will be the first of many, is finding a sustainable way to bring general education, high-level vocational education, and business training to our beautiful but poor communities.\u00a0 We are educating, feeding and teaching skills for economic self-reliance to our youth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>
We are at the beginning of our journey. In our case, it literally does take a village \u2013 leaders, village elders, teachers, business partners and students.\u00a0 Together, we are building a dream, taking our future into our own hands and paving a highway to economic independence for our youth.\u00a0<\/p>
People save their own lives. Our job is to provide the opportunity.\u00a0 I hope you will join our journey.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our Leadership Creating NTS: The Story of Jones Obiria When I walk through our school and watch our students at work \u2013\u00a0 in our classrooms and our laboratories \u2013 I see our future shifting.\u00a0 I see education and employment lifting us permanently out of poverty.\u00a0 I see education becoming a human right, no matter how […]<\/p>\n Read More \u2192<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43295","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyamboyotechnical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyamboyotechnical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyamboyotechnical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyamboyotechnical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyamboyotechnical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43295"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nyamboyotechnical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45087,"href":"https:\/\/nyamboyotechnical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43295\/revisions\/45087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyamboyotechnical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}