Chairman’s Welcome
Congratulated attendees and welcomed all class year cohort officials and representatives. The aim is to strengthen class cohorts and have enough representatives. What is the benefit for making the alumni
- To benefit our members
- To support the school
- Motivate career days
- Prize giving days to support academic wok.
He introduced the ExCom team to the class cohorts. Opened for class cohorts to bring what they have form the class cohort members. What is our role. What can this class cohort do ?
Reactions from Class Cohort reps.
Joseph Wendot 1982.
Substantial improvements. Committee have done a lot of work within a very short time. Give them a big clap. Of appreciation. Organizing people and results. most important things is to get results. Pole to the ones who have lost colleagues. Can we assist the widows or widowers or their children. When we remember what Moi did we can also be able to emulate these people set high standard of objectives.
William Too Arusei 1999
Appreciation of good work. Seen the journey and following discussion. Sometimes heated and mixed issues and moderated well. Challen but it’s good to get direction. 1991 group have been very active. 2 current permanent secretary, John Tanui hosted us. Let’s link to other year cohorts and grow our direction.
David Ngetich 1990
If we look at the structure of KOTU forums apex and small ones. If we can think of ways to strengthen year cohorts. Most 1990s and above are 50 years old. 2000s and above have different interests. When we meet as a year cohort owe will have same interest and understand each other.
- Chapters
- Year cohorts.
- Structures which are stable. Chairmen will be knowing what pertains other cohorts.
Job Mwangi 1992
Our Alumni is a result of Moi’s spirit of Nyayo. We may need to identify schools nearby or children needing to the school across the country. For now the school is private and maybe too costly for our incomes.
Eva Molok 1990
Contributed to the talk about criticism. Sometimes it’s good but there is positive criticism and negative criticism. If we have a way of managing negative criticism. Embarrassing to see spoons thrown all over.
Alice Kiptoon 19 Athi
Proposed regional chapters. Class cohorts not able to meet but suggested we should be strong on welfare. They had members who had passed on and they visited the family 33 years after school and able to stand with classmate 33 years later. Regional chapters will coordinate more. They wanted visit old teachers especially Mr. Langat.
Hodler 2018 Athi
Thank you for what you are doing. You chose to do it. The age difference makes a big impact in how we can contribute. Most of their age group are in university and cant contribute financially. They are in the group but not participating. We should think of Community service initiatives for genz so that they feel they contribute to the society as MHSK.
Rose Cheruiyot 1998
Nzoia house captian. Happy to be here. Regional meetings are very important. There are many good opportunities.
Douglas Ayabei 1995
Members become comfortable they don’t see the benefits of the larger alumni group. There is comfort of people from same comfort. See the importance of the larger group. There was need to emphasize on the benefits of this group. Let’s strengthen the cohort group, we also need the larger group because we can’t live in exclusion from the larger group. We should explain the benefits. Welfare groups are strong within the year cohort. Importance of Genz support is not monetary terms but also in social welfare. Members are still growing and they are still dependants. Kabarak, has a special thing in him. When working in county government four CEC and LCS sat on a table without knowing each other and surprisingly all were Kabarak alumni. There is a lot we learnt through Kabarak. gets Give back to the community. We can do a lot to support people of Kabarak community or other communities. Like dorms or surrounding schools.
Magerer Langat 1992
Our class cohorts are perpetual forever till we die. We should enjoin in the group of business because we won’t always be employed. Mzee Moi brought shoes from Bata. Kinyira is when we throw the tire and its not longer useful and that’s what many of us used as shoes. We came with tire/ kinyira shoes. Moi was aware of our backgrounds. Shapes of feet were wide because of walking without shoes. The feet had to fit in the shoes. The field now during opening and visitng is full of big cars. During our time no visits even the whole year. Parents couldn’t come. Today if you don’t visit for a month there is a problem. The children are visited in all events. Sometimes my dad came and I was looked for in the whole school for almost three hours because I wasn’t expecting him. He came without bread but we were lucky Moi gave us bread makatiat. The benefit of how Kabarak has transited. Some people who not comfortable to attend can contribute in an active account to sponsor the class cohort in meeting like this. We should adopt younger class cohorts. And letting them attend meetings. We can support students in Kabarak, or the surrounding community. Adopting other school for the same amount we can adopt one student. We should really be mindful of others welfare.
Treasurers Remarks – Ivan Kelunyo
Ivan Kelunyo said we should be proud to be alumni and humble to embrace where we came from. He appreciated the old school, the generational phases from Kimeli and Wendot, the veterans. To the 2000s and the 2010 coming forward the alumni was generational until the school became fully private. He reiterated that we don’t have another school where we went to except Kabarak. The alumni umbrella is bringing all of us together. Let’s all be part of the umbrella body. As we grow the cohorts and chapters, lets be part of the alumni umbrella. We should also grow at cohort level, Chapter level, and the Association allows you to do anything good like giving back, changing lives, and resources. The primary resource is registration and renewal to be members.