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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, the Government is cognizant of the fact that unless we invest in the potential of our youth and women, we will not achieve real demographic and gender dividend in the future. Therefore, in line with the Jubilee Coalition commitment, we have revamped and restructured the National Youth Service (NYS) into a robust and a dynamic institution to drive the youth transformation agenda. The NYS is expanding both in terms of scale of its operations and the number of youths engaged. Following the three recruitment cycles, the NYS contingent has grown from 6,000 to 31,000 in slightly over one year. Another 10,900 recruits will be recruited in September, 2015 to bring the total to 42, 000. The NYS Service Men and Service Women will be engaged in national service programmes all over the country in areas such as building small dams and water pans, drilling water, agricultural activities, vector control, border control initiatives and other programmes aimed at building community assets and improving the environment and living standards. Through national service, the NYS is building a new national psyche of nation building, patriotism, service culture, voluntarism, civil competence and social cohesion not only among themselves but also working with other young people within their communities. The Service Men and Service Women will work alongside 220, 000 youths within the communities in which they serve, working on projects all over the country. These community youths are engaged as casual labourers with the added advantage of receiving on-the-job-training and mentorship from the NYS. Hon. Speaker, the NYS will be the premier training institution on artisanal skills, crafts and technical training. Through the vocational training, the youths will be equipped with skills that will enable them to contribute to economic development. The training is geared at responding to the needs of our national economic agenda and current economic opportunities. The NYS is aiming to become self-sustainable by establishing the National Construction Company for Kenya that can deliver on various infrastructural projects in the country and beyond. Through the NYS Construction Company, the cost of construction will go down by 30-50 per cent due to the reduction in the cost of labour and machinery. In the financial year 2015/2016, in order to meet the commitments that we have made to our youths, through the NYS, I am allocating Kshs25 billion towards youth employment and re-engineering the NYS as a vehicle for transforming and empowering the youth. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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