Kenyan youths take market-driven route to construction jobs

Elizabeth Bosibori, 20, is only three months into her two-year on-the-job training, but she is already buzzing about her skills in plumbing.

Since joining Davis & Shirtliff, a leading water and energy solutions provider in East Africa, as an apprentice in January, she has been out on the field regularly understudying technicians drilling and installing boreholes or repairing water treatment systems in upmarket neighbourhoods in Nairobi and Kiambu counties.