Annual report on the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya / Colonial Office.

  • Great Britain. Colonial Office.
Date:
[1948]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report on the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya / Colonial Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Society, an employees’ canteen and a number of students’ societies and clubs. The following figures will be of interest and show how 1948 was the peak year as regards ex-servicemen’s training: — Output of Students 1946 1947 1948 Estimate for 1949 Total Social Welfare Workers 22 23 21 — 66 Probation Assistants 2 3 4 -- 9 British Legion Assistants 2 2 — —- 4 General Traders 2 27 36 — 65 Elementary Teachers (T4) .. —- '■ — 6 3 9 Lower Primary Teachers (T3) — 31 47 73 151 Primary Teachers (T2) — — 13 28 41 Agricultural Instructors — 24 48 — 72 Health and Hygiene Assistants — 10 — -— 10 Clerks .. 6 42 52 70 170 Bakers.. — -- 10 24 34 Court Prosecutors — — 4 — 4 Surveyors — — — 6 6 Market Assistants — — 1 2 3 Army Teachers -- 73 — — 73 Census Supervisors .. — — 70 — 70 To Makerere .. — > —- 5 — 5 Total . . 34 235 317 206 792 * Wives Number of wives who received instruction during the year . . 94 Children Number of children in the Children’s School in December, 1948 . . 135 Special Courses—Not necessarily Ex-servicemen A ten-days’ course for the European Welfare Officers of the East African Railways and Harbours. A course for seventeen African Courts Registrars. A course for twenty-one Chiefs. Field Work There are seven European District Welfare Officers and thirty-eight trained African Welfare Workers working within the Government Welfare Organization and thirty-six halls in use. Local Native Councils, helped by funds from Central Government, have erected the welfare halls. The Govern¬ ment makes a building grant towards each permanent hall of £150, an equip¬ ment grant of £50 and a £10 grant towards the first year’s upkeep; in practically every case the Local Native Council concerned has contributed a greater sum. After the first year it is left to the Local Native Council and local community to meet expenses. Each hall has an African welfare worker in charge and he is engaged on community development work in the area served by the hall and is paid by the Local Native Council, having been trained by the Government. Halls generally have a wireless, a film strip projector, a small library, daily papers and magazines, indoor games equip¬ ment and a football and athletic ground. The mobile cinema pays periodic visits. Talks and discussions are arranged, local Government officers, both European and African, missionaries and other interested persons coming