Migori: Vulnerable, less privileged, and persons with disabilities have been encouraged to guide their young ones in applying for the Presidential Secondary School Bursary (PSSB). A Children’s Officer Vivian Omollo has also called upon guardians to be at the forefront of helping their children, orphans, and vulnerable children (OVCs) from very poor households, seek the Presidential Secondary School Bursary.
According to Kenya News Agency, the Presidential Secondary School Bursary is a flagship project of Vision 2030 that seeks to reduce illiteracy by increasing access to education and improving transition rates from primary to secondary schools. ‘We have forms in our Children’s Department across all the Sub Counties, and we are urging guardians to come, collect and fill the forms before their applications can be considered,’ said Omollo.
Already 439 students in Migori County have benefited from the PSSB in this 2024/25 financial year, with Kuria East Sub County registering the highest number of 63 beneficiaries. The 2024/25 Presidential Secondary School Bursary in Migori County has seen girls benefiting more from the programme with 234 girls as opposed to the 205 boys.
Omollo, however, said that the numbers of the beneficiaries might rise before the end of the current financial year. She encouraged the county residents to utilise the time to benefit from the scheme for the sake of the Orphan/Vulnerable Child education and careers.
The Presidential Secondary School Bursary initiative, which started in the 2006/07 Financial Year as a complementary service to support Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in secondary schools across the 290 constituencies, has continued to give hope to students that cannot afford education tuition in public secondary schools.