Tuskys Supermarket has signed a partnership
with KCB to provide internships for 1,600 youths
at its 50 outlets.
The supermarket chain will offer internship
opportunities to beneficiaries of the KCB
Foundation’s 2Jiariri scholarship scheme
launched in March this year.
The bank’s Sh10 billion-a-year youth
empowerment programme is meant to benefit
500,000 small-scale entrepreneurs over the next
five years.
Tuskys, on the other hand, has been running an
internship programme for fresh graduates and
youth launched in October last year.
The programme is aimed at creating a pool of
skilled staff for its outlets countrywide and
tackling unemployment among the youth.
The partnership will also target 13,000 youths
across 22 counties for contract farming
opportunities in agribusiness.
KCB will provide the youths asset financing and
working capital. Tuskys has committed to buy all
the produce of programme beneficiaries. KCB
Foundation Executive Director, Jane Mwangi,
said the initiative will offer entrepreneurial youth
a shot at economic empowerment.
“At KCB Foundation it is our belief that the
youth hold the greatest sway in the pace and
trajectory that the East African economy will
take into the future.
‘‘We also acknowledge the great contribution
agriculture makes to the national GDP and we
are committed to supporting the sector,” Ms
Mwangi said at the signing ceremony.
Tuskys Supermarket CEO Daniel Githua said the
partnership will pool resources, skills and
experiences to advance youth skills, self-
employment and further hone entrepreneurship
skills among the youth while at the same time
providing employment opportunities for
beneficiaries.
“We have noted a marked improvement in terms
of productivity from youths who have gone
through our internship programme,” said Mr
Githua.
KCB Group, through its foundation, expects to
generate 2.5 million new jobs by helping build
skills among artisans and ease their access to
capital.
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