By Sandra Blessing
Tom Mboya University has been accredited as an International Training Centre for German Language to B1 level.
For the past eight months, the university management has been planning and setting up the Tom Mboya University German Language Program.
Over 1000 Kenyans have been identified through the Widows Empowerment Program and will begin the exciting journey to prepare for the German Labor Market.
Tom Mboya University German Language Program Coordinator Mr. Gordon Opiyo said the first cohort of 1100 will leave the country in March next year for Germany where they will enter the job market.
He said through the support of Interior Government Permanent Secretary Dr Raymond Omolo, the university was able to be accredited and for the program to take off.
“Dr Omolo has invested heavily on the project for the last six months and through his intervention the university was accredited, The PS ensured that the German delegation visited the institution and today we have the program in place,’ he said.
Opiyo said the number of the second cohort will double to 2200 and this will open Nyanza to the German labor market and a program he termed as a move in the right direction for the youths.
“The young men and women, mostly orphans and the extremely needy drawn from all corners of the country will be fully sponsored by the Widows Empowerment Program through the six month Language Training, basic German Labor Laws, and Basic German Culture and current affairs,” he said.
Opiyo said the mass training was incepted last year by Kenyatta University which has been offering German language studies for the last 30 years and has enabled several Kenyans to transit to the German labor market.
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Opiyo said those targeted for the German labor market will include teachers, nurses, bankers, drivers, and more importantly the blue economy where plumbers will be offered opportunities in German.
President William Ruto recently announced that the recruitment of Kenyans to take up jobs in Germany will soon commence. This came after the two countries signed a labor mobility agreement.
Ruto said the recruitment exercise for the first batch will be held on September 27, 2024.
“When I announced that we would have a chance for Kenyan youths to work in Germany, others said I was lying but on Friday they knew there is a plan and a possibility and while I was there on Friday, some Kenyans were already there to work.
“Additionally, on September 27, the first recruitment of Kenyan youths who will work in Germany will be held,” Ruto said.
This comes after Kenyan and Germany signed the Comprehensive Agreement on Sharing of Labor, Talent, and Mobility in Berlin on Saturday.
