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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Homa Bay governor Gladys Wanga recently celebrated the completion of an ambitious multi-million shilling project to improve the quality of education in the county through the construction of modern early childhood education (EYE) classrooms.<\/p>\n

Dubbed the Ondoa Kaunda Initiative, the project utilised a labour-intensive model in a bid to kill two birds with one stone by erecting modern educational infrastructure while employing Homa Bay residents at the same time.<\/p>\n

Similar to President William Ruto’s Climate WorX initiative, the Ondoa Kaunda project mainly snubbed the conventional contracting methods to build the classrooms, with the governor embarking on a labour-based economic stimulus program.<\/p>\n

“We sent money to all the 163 schools and the locals run the program themselves. They found local contractors, brought local labour and paid everything locally,” the governor said.<\/p>\n

Launched on July 10, 2024,the project is on the verge of marking its three-month anniversary. One of its key objectives was to have at least three new classrooms in each of the 40 wards in Homa Bay’s eight sub-counties.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe initiated the labour-based system of Ondoa Kaunda classrooms on 10th July 2024 at God Ndonyo in Kibiri Ward,” the governor observed. “Today, 90 days since we started the initiative, we have built a total of 163 classrooms. That\u2019s 4 classrooms per ward.”<\/p>\n

According to the governor, her administration undertook a rapid-results formula to build the classrooms within three months since the county was seriously lacking in terms of educational infrastructure.<\/p>\n

“When we came to Homa Bay, we only had three classrooms completed in the last 10 years. That is why we saw it fit to run a rapid results initiative. Since we came in two years ago, we now have 243 classes we have done to completion.”<\/p>\n

The governor targets at least 500 classes by the time she completes her first term in office.<\/p>\n

The governor’s latest project came just months after she clarified claims about demolishing a Ksh100 million factory to pave the way for the construction of her office.<\/p>\n

The governor in August termed the reports as inaccurate stating that the factory in question was demolished for not meeting mandatory construction standards.<\/p>\n

Further, she revealed plans to repurpose or complete all projects left unfinished by the previous administration to maximise public funds’ value.<\/p>\n

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