The government is scaling up professional job opportunities in the Affordable Housing Programme.
President William Ruto explained that the government is seeking to double, in the short term, the number of consulting groups of companies involved in the housing programme to handle the increasing work.
The President said the number of such companies will be increased from the current 39 to about 70, raising the number of firms participating in the programme to many more.
He said the government will also increase the working shifts to two and thus double the number of young people employed in the programme.
“My instructions to the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Public Works in collaboration with consortia are to reorganise the affordable housing programme to scale up the number of people working in our programme from 320,000 to 600,000,” he said.
Speaking during the launch of the Affordable Housing Internship Programme, he said the initiative will enable the government to bring on board more than 4,000 graduate professionals from technical colleges and universities.
“This will help us provide opportunities to the many professionals graduating from our TVETs and universities. We also have many young people out there yearning for something to do,” he said.
The President pointed out that the internship programme seeks to offer graduates a structured, practical, and strategic gateway into Kenya’s dynamic housing and urban development sector
