The chairperson County First Ladies Association, Esther Rutto, yesterday said the office will help them collaborate with stakeholders and citizens.
Esther is Bomet Governor Isaac Rutto’s wife.
She said the office will enable them to raise finds and unite them irrespective of political, religious or tribal affiliations.
“We need a structure that will allow more meaningful engagements with interested partners. That is why our first step is to legally register the association in the push for establishment of county offices,” Esther said.
She was speaking at Laico Regency during a women and youth empowerment workshop organised by Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero’s wife, Susan Mboya,
Susan said the workshop was not meant to mobilise the women to back the governors’ referendum campaign.
She said it was for them to share their experience and brainstorm on how to take their roles as “first ladies”.
Susan announced plans to launch the No Child Left Behind initiative next week in Fuata Nyayo and Mukuru slums.
“The school will have 1,200 children,” Susan said.
The Fuata Nyayo Informal School will adopt a new curriculum as a pilot for the project that will be officially begin in 2015.
The initiative aims to rehabilitate street children by offering them housing, food and basic education.
It will have school feeding programmes, supervised homework and training on life skills.
Susan said Chandaria Trust will rehabilitate five more schools in Nairobi at Sh10 million each.
“The initiative which will be purely community-based aims to provide quality education for all children irrespective of socio-economic status and create jobs for the youth,” she said.
