Minister Ayacko made the remarks when he received 20 computers from a private company Futurekids and Ken Gen, during the Rongo constituency education day held at Sony Green stadium Awendo in Migori District.

Mr Ayacko who is also the area MP handed over the computers to the district education officer to be forwarded to Kanga, Kanyawaga, Ulanda girls, Oyugi Ogango, Kodero Bara, Owiro Okoko, Manyatta, Kokuro and Dede girls secondary schools, to enable them start computer lessons in their institutions.

He thanked Futurekids led by the company's General Manager Hemesh Lakhan and the school programme manager Mary Muiruri for donating the computers to the schools and coming up with a training programme for teachers who will teach computers in the schools.

The minister said the best inheritance from parents to youths was a good education, which should embrace computer literacy.

Mr Lakhan said the Ministry of Education had mandated his company in conjunction with the Kenya Institute of Education to come up with a curriculum for schools from kindergarten, up to secondary level and colleges.

He said that over 50 schools had so far benefited from his company's training programme of computer teachers

Mr Lamekh said they had started a pilot computer literacy programme in five secondary schools in the constituency, where teachers will be trained and schools provided with computers for the promotion of Information Technology.

Futurekids is a computer-oriented educational institution that primarily caters for the design, development and delivery of computer education from the very basics to a professional level through its professionally developed information technology curriculum.

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