Empower more hands to bake the national cake

Youth paint the tarmac under the footbridge along Haile Selassie Avenue at City Square [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard}

It was Ayi Kwei Armah who warned in his evergreen ‘The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born’ that we get lost if we forget our past and have no vision.

In Kenya, Vision 2030 remains our boldest statement yet that we may not just be saved from getting lost, but also that we believe that we shall prosper as a nation in the foreseeable future. These thoughts wrapped my mind as I presented a paper on resource mobilisation for population programmes to a national leaders’ conference, last week.