Gladys Kariiri finished her
Secondary education in 2011 at Gankanga secondary school. When she finished
school there was nobody who could have advised her on career development
because most of her class mates got married immediately they completed their
secondary level. Tharaka division of Mumoni district is challenged by the
infrastructure since there is not even an edge mobile network and hence the
resident are cut out from the neighboring districts i.e. Mbeere to the west and
south east.
One day her former teacher came to
their home stead and informed her that he overheard that Kyuso Maarifa centre
was offering free ICT training. The teacher had to work for 87kilometres to
Kyuso to register Kenya certificate of Primary education (KCPE) candidates when
he got the news.
So when she heard of a free ICT
training opportunity being offered at Kyuso Maarifa Centre, Gladys saw this as
a God send opportunity. She made every arrangement possible to make sure she
was in the next class. She travelled rented a house for 2 month for she could
not travel for 87km every day. She saw that as a golden chance to gain skills,
look for employment and save money to do diploma in psychology.
Here, she got trained on five
computer packages which included; Ms Word, Ms excel Internet and e-mail,
Ms Power point and introduction to technology.
After undergoing the training for
two months, she was proud to graduate and awarded with a certificate which she
says marked the start of her success. First she was successful in independent electoral
and boundary commission (IEBC) interviews where she was a polling clerk. It
wasn’t long before she secured a current employment at Musyoka Computer services in Kyuso town.
Here, her duties include; typesetting,
printing, photocopying, photography (passport).
“The training was excellent because
we had a qualified trainer, he was good at identifying each trainees need,
strength and weakness” The 2 month training by ALIN through Kyuso Maarifa
Centre changed my life completely because I was able to gain practical skills that
am using in my current job,” Says a proud Gladys. .
Ms. Kariiri congratulates ALIN for
giving her chance to advance her career positively. Whenever she has a problem
she doesn’t hesitate to call Maarifa centre staffs since she says are very
professional and friendly
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