Let’s pay HELB loans to give others a chance at getting university education

Helb beneficiaries pay their loans at the institution’s offices at the Anniversary Towers, Nairobi. [File, Standard]

For almost ten years, the government has been championing 100 per cent transition rate of learners to secondary school and colleges.

Due to high levels of poverty and unemployment, there are families who cannot afford fees. That is one of the reasons why mitigating efforts are always made, by either the government or private agencies, to see several needy students through their schooling.