{"id":239400,"date":"2026-07-24T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-unveils-plan-to-train-100000-youth-in-three-years\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:53:00","slug":"kenya-ruto-unveils-plan-to-train-100000-youth-in-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-unveils-plan-to-train-100000-youth-in-three-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Unveils Plan to Train 100,000 Youth in Three Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has launched a new initiative that will empower more than 100,000 young Kenyans over the next three years in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Kenya Private Sector Alliance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Next Generation of Kenya Youth Employment Programme will provide structured private sector internships complemented by training in entrepreneurship and financial literacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">It will also impart life skills and workplace readiness, ensuring that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607240410.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has launched a new initiative that will empower more than 100,000 young Kenyans over the next three years in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Kenya Private Sector Alliance. The Next Generation of Kenya Youth Employment Programme will provide structured private sector internships complemented by training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4688,430,257,7586,11238,254,6026,6777,5114,6276],"class_list":["post-239400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-plan","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-train","tag-unveils","tag-years","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}