The Ministry of Education has started receiving scripts from students whose schools entered them in the annual East African Community Students’ essay writing competitions of 2017, Patrick Khaemba who coordinates the Focal Office in Kenya has said. The competition is open to students in secondary schools in the five East African Community Partner States—Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, United Republic of Tanzania. He asked leading secondary schools to enroll their students in the essay competition saying effective communication skills was requites for life long experience, and career development. He said the essay writing competition provided a rare opportunity for students to apply and polish the writing skills that they learn in English as well as Kiswahili and French. The competition aims to create awareness among the students about the policies, programmes and activities of East African Community.

Source: The Star June 12, 2017 21:00 UTC