Eldoret, August 8, 2024
Music speaks louder than words. This African proverb captures the essence of the Kenya Music Festival, a platform that has enabled the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) to spread career guidance messages.
The largest festival of its kind in East and Central Africa is happening at Moi Girls Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County, and KUCCPS is proud to be a sponsor of Choral Verse (Own Composition) for primary and secondary schools, comprising compositions in Kiswahili and English.
This year, the sponsored classes have attracted over 14 entries focusing on how KUCCPS has transformed the lives of students through career guidance and placement to courses of their choice.
The schools that have so far stages exciting performances themed around the KUCCPS mandate include Muthaiga Primary (Winner), Nyamaye DOK, Unoa Primary, Mululu Primary, Tenwek Boarding, Kalumbi Primary, Mkangani Primary School, Hillside Academy, Moi University Primary, Kivunye Primary, St. Joseph Primary, Eramba Mission Pimary, Shamma Primary and Tender Care Academy.
The festival has given KUCCPS a platform for delivering its mandate to disseminate career guidance information, though compositions and performances by schools. KUCCPS has donated trophies and certificates and will have an opportunity to present them to the winners in the verse classes at the end of the festival.
In addition, KUCCPS has pitched a tent at the festival grounds to offer assistance and advise to students, well as getting an opportunity to make announcements and sensitise participants and the audiences in the performance halls.
The Kenya Music Festival attracts millions of participants from learning institutions across Kenya. With over 600 competitive categories spanning music, dance, and elocution, it is a significant platform for inculcating positive values, preserving Kenya’s heritage and addressing societal issues. Therefore, a partnership with the Kenya Music Festival is an important strategy for KUCCPS to reach young people with messages on career and talent development. The theme of the 2024 edition is “Talent Development For Growth of the Creative Economy”.
“We note that the festival is aligned with the Bottom Up Economic Transformation Agenda by supporting talent development and nurturing the Creative Economy. As KUCCPS, we are committed to supporting this goal, well aware that in every young person lies a potential for greatness,” said KUCCPS CEO Dr. Agnes Mercy Wahome.
The festival will with gala performances by winning schools, and a State Gala on August 14, 2024.
