{"id":1867,"date":"2023-01-23T15:21:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:59:19","slug":"sainath-education-institute-to-help-rutos-government-to-create-one-million-textile-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2023\/01\/23\/sainath-education-institute-to-help-rutos-government-to-create-one-million-textile-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sainath Education Institute to help Ruto\u2019s government to create one million textile jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230123-WA0049.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230123-WA0049.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230123-WA0049-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230123-WA0049-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sainath Education Institute CEO Rajeev Arora has pledged to help President William Ruto\u2019s government to create one million textile jobs through providing world class training for apparel sector workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arora said that last year he set up a Skills Development Centre of Excellence (SDCE) in Kitengela at the EPZ plaza, which &nbsp;provides up-to-date, relevant and practical training and capacity building for the various segments of the apparel manufacturing sector in Kenya while also solving the societal problem of youth unemployment in Kenya by bridging the skills gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo far 560 youth \u00a0have undergone training out of which 505 or 90 percent of them have secured employed in the EPZ factories,\u201d Arora said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230123-WA0045-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230123-WA0045-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230123-WA0045-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230123-WA0045-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230123-WA0045-1.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Arora &nbsp;who has more than 38 years of consulting experience for 24 African countries in the textile sector has plans to train atleast 1500 garment workers in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He revealed that the idea to set up the institution was born from the existing shortage of skilled workers in the apparel manufacturing sector in Kenya which currently employs over 40,000 workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt the current capacity, the industry has a shortage of 10,000 \u2013 15,000 skilled workers, 60 percent of which are sewing machine operators. Training of sewing machine operators to date has been ad-hoc with non-standardized in-house training,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arora added that currently employers report that they are not able to get qualified staff on time which reduces the competitiveness of Kenya\u2019s textile sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sainath Education Institute CEO Rajeev Arora has pledged to help President William Ruto\u2019s government to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}