The Affordable Housing Project is fast becoming a story of transformation, where economic empowerment meets skill development.
At the sites in Kikuyu, Limuru, and Ngong, thousands of interns and recent graduates are working alongside seasoned craftsmen, turning theory into practice and earning a livelihood.
Each site hosts at least thirty interns, all part of a national drive to build homes and futures.
A week ago, President William Ruto hosted 5,500 graduate interns working under the Affordable Housing Project.
This lot has secured internship opportunities under the flagship programme.
KBC Channel 1 visited several sites to put a face to the figures and to assess the uptake of the programme, because as they say, seeing is believing.
In Kikuyu, the construction yard hums like a living organism.
Carpenters bend over woodwork, masons mix mortar with a steady rhythm, and interns shadow them closely, learning every detail of the craft.
In Limuru, cranes dominate the skyline, their engines groaning as they lift steel beams into place.
Engineering, architecture, quantity surveying and even communication graduates find themselves immersed in the reality of site management, their classroom lessons now tested against the demands of real construction.
The scenes are replicated in Ngong and Thika Affordable Housing sites as tools of work squeak across gravel and sparks fly from grinders as metalworkers shape beams and rods.
Interns in safety helmets and reflective jackets move between tasks, gaining skills that will anchor their careers. The sites are busy, purposeful, and relentless. For the interns, this is more than work, it is empowerment.
President Ruto insists the Affordable Housing Project is not just about walls and roofs, but about transforming lives, equipping youth with skills, and driving Kenya’s economic agenda forward.
