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Enhance vocational training through competition in skills

Lotego Friends Vocational Training Center mechanic students in Vihiga county assembling car engine at their institution in Vihiga county on September 26, 2019. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

WorldSkills competitions (WSC) are the gold standards of skills excellence. They inspire young competitors to reach new heights, helping them to turn their passion into a profession. The first WorldSkills competition in 1946 in Spain, rose out of the ruins of the Second World War, which devastated the economies of Europe and created a huge skills shortage that threatened a new economic depression.

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