Most day secondary schools in the semi-arid Sigowet-Soin subcounty in Kericho are set to be converted into boarding schools.
Area MP Kipsegeret Koros attributed poor results in KCSE exams to the hardships that learners go through to get to school.
Most students, he regretted, have to walk five to 10km to school in the rough terrain of the constituency.
The MP cited Motero Day Secondary School where learners experience frequent water shortages forcing them to go fetch water some three kilometres away.
This, he said, has been happening since the inception of the school in 2010.
"Besides the water problem, most students have to walk some 1o kilometres to school daily and this eats into their class time as they are unable to make it to school by 7am," Koros said.
The sparsely populated Sigowet/Soin area has few boarding schools.
He said the school is in dire need of clean water supply and dormitories for Form 3 and 4s.
Koros promised a donation of two water tanks where harvested rainwater can be stored.
Last Saturday, Finlays Community Trust led by chairperson Bishop Alfred Rotich commissioned two new classrooms at Motero Day Secondary School worth Sh3.5 million.
Rotich was accompanied by trust secretary Sammy Kirui who is James Finlays corporate affairs general manager and James Finlay's technical general manager Wesley Bosuben.
The classrooms are part of 64 development projects the trust has rolled out in Bomet and Kericho counties.
The trust, which is owned by James Finlays Kenya Limited, kicked off its operations in 2010.
Besides the development projects, last month the trust gave out some 28 university scholarships to needy students from the two counties.
The Sh22.5 million worth of scholarships benefitted some 10 students from Bomet, 12 from Kericho, and six from James Finlay's dependants. The scholarships covered undergraduates.
Each of the beneficiaries got Sh150,000 worth of scholarship and a laptop.
Since its inception, the trust has been establishing infrastructure projects that focus on the development of the rural community.
Water projects like Chepinyonyi water springs in the Ainamoi constituency and ISLA project for restoring and conserving 60,000 hectares of the Mau West Forest by the year 2030 are some projects the Trust has undertaken.
-Edited by SKanyara