The Ministry of Education has announced 1,300 vacancies for volunteer graduate assistants under the G-United national volunteer programme.
The programme targets university graduates aged between 22-30 years who will be deployed to do voluntary work in 20 counties.
The programme, currently in its fourth cohort, is a government initiative that trains young graduates in professionals skills and sends them to volunteer their services to counties.
"G-United is looking for self driven, hard working and passionate Kenyan graduates to experience life in a new county and become a generation of leaders and change makers."
"Volunteers become 'education ambassadors' who provide remedial education support to young learners and contribute to the improvement of the quality of education in Kenya," read a statement from PS Belio Kipsang's office.
Remedial education is
intended for children with learning difficulties.
The services of the volunteers will likely come in handy as the ministry rolls out the new competency based 2-6-3-3-3 curriculum in grades one and two.
Children across 33,000 public and private primary schools are being taken through a piloting phase of the curriculum before the system is rolled out nationally up to the fourth grade next year.
Volunteers will each receive a monthly stipend of Sh6,000 for their upkeep and NHIF cover .
The statement signed by H.S Abdi said so far, 800 volunteers have been trained and deployed to 20 counties since the inception of the G-United programme in 2014.
Such programmes, even though unable to completely deal with youth unemployment in Kenya, is a step forward to deal with the problem that currently stands at 40 per cent.
Interested applicants can access more information at www.g-united.or.ke. Applications are free of charge.