St. Kizito VTI is offering the following courses:

- Motor Vehicle Mechanics and Electrical (MVM/E)
- Electrical Installation (EI)
- Carpentry and Joinery (C&J)
- Dressmaking, Tailoring & Embroidery (DT&E)
- Secretarial Course (Secr)
- Computer Course (Comp)
- Plumbing and Metal Work (P & MW)
- Electronics Servicing Technology (EST)

The staff employed in the Institute includes: the Principal, two Directors, 1 Administrator, 20 instructors and assistants, 2 secretaries, 11 general workers. The primary objective of the Institute is to keep an excellent level of quality training. Since 1994 the Institute has enrolled 1,366 students and the following table details their distribuition by course:

COURSES	ENROLLMENT
	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
MVME year 1	26	26	46	46	46	50	54
MVME year 2				20	30	40	46
EI year 1	25	26	26	28	28	30	30
EI year 2				14	20	23	27
C&J year 1	12	15	16	15	10	14	14
C&J year 2				12	05	10	07
DT&E year 1			10	10	11	11	13
DT&E year 2				02	05	10	8
Secretarial Studies			30	33	55	72	77
Computer Studies				16	30	41	58
P&MW year 1							21
EST year 1							16
TOTAL	63	67	128	196	240	301	371

The Institute is very pleased to state that there have been many indicators of good quality training: more than 90% of the students complete their course; about 90% of them pass the examinations; the consistent positive evaluation on the skills of the students, made by the Companies where they go either for further training or for employment.

 

A great effort is being made to offer the youths better chances to succeed through an improved quality of training, particularly making it well connected with the reality of the labor market. To deal with this strategic goal a few major interventions have been singled out:

* updating and upgrading of the workshops especially by acquiring advanced technological machinery;
* effective links between students, instructors and technicians of companies through technical seminars and workshops;
* opportunities for the students to make direct experience of the actual life in a working condition;
* educational tours.

For this reason a lot of companies (Pirelli, General Motors, Toyota, Land Rover, ABB and many others) have been involved in the activity of the Institute thus offering effective support through different means (e.g. donations in kind, technical support, seminars & workshops, funds, attachment and employment). Along with the corporate sector, the Institute wishes to thank the German Embassy, the Australian High Commission, the Standard & Chartered Bank, the Swiss NGO AVAID. Through their interventions the students have benefited greately from a relevant improvement in the facilities of the workshops.

The Institute wishes to register special thanks to the Italian Embassy to Kenya. Their oustanding support has been foundamental to the development of the life of the Institute.