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How vocational training is bridging market skills gap

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Timothy Kareithi, 23, recalls an incident when his father needed a plumber back in their home in Sirende, Trans Nzoia County. Even after promising that he would show up, a week later, he had yet to arrive.

A comment from his father, saying 'If only we had someone in this house who could fix the toilet', clearly expressing his frustration, became the fire that led him to take plumbing as a career path.

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