Five hundred Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) scholars under the Wings to Fly programme gathered in Nairobi for a two-day mentorship forum, where they were urged to harness artificial intelligence and digital tools to generate employment rather than simply seek it.
The forum, organised by the Education and Leadership Development Pillar at Equity Group Foundation (EGF), brought together second and third-year scholars pursuing Level 5 certificates and Level 6 diplomas from institutions across the country.
Sessions covered AI, entrepreneurship, leadership, career readiness and professional networking, all under the theme Smart Skills for a Smart World: Revolutionizing for the Digital Age.
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Hannah Kimani, General Manager for Education and Leadership Development at EGF, encouraged participants to identify community problems and apply digital tools to address them.
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Johnny Falla, Associate Director for Innovation and Technology at EGF, stressed that AI is transforming the expectations employers have of new entrants into the workforce.
Boniface Kinoti, Director of Advocacy at EGF, pressed scholars to pursue entrepreneurship as a vehicle for self-reliance.
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The forum also offered a stage for beneficiaries to reflect on personal journeys shaped by hardship.
Henry Sofali, a former Wings to Fly scholar now studying for a Level 6 Diploma in Information Communication Technology at Kenya Coast National Polytechnic, nearly abandoned his education after losing a family breadwinner, with the COVID-19 pandemic adding further disruption.
EGF's TVET Scholarship Programme allowed him to resume his studies. He now volunteers with his local church's media team, handling livestreaming, computer maintenance and network management.
Zamzam Godana, a Clinical Medicine and Surgery student at KMTC Kabarnet, defied cultural expectations in her Isiolo County community to compete in beauty pageantry.
She won Miss Tourism Kenya in 2025 and was crowned the inaugural Miss Tourism East Africa in 2026, gaining a regional platform to promote tourism and encourage young women. S
he remains committed to a medical career, motivated in part by the shortage of doctors she says contributed to her mother's death.
EGF is also launching a new scholarship programme this month targeting 1,200 young people for training in food and agriculture, complementing the government's goal of raising TVET enrolment to two million by the end of 2026.
Source: TUKO.co.ke
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