Following the Jerusalem Declaration, an MoU signed between President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and H.E. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel signed on 23rd February 2016, The University of Nairobi among other Agricultural, Water and Irrigation Training related institutions annually send their top students to the Arava International Centre for Agricultural Training (AICAT) to study and acquire technical hand on skills.

On 3^rd of July 2019, Mr. Johnson Kinyua, Director, Career Services and Naomi Nyaboga, Chief Information Officer, Office of Career Services offered a Pre-Departure Induction presentation for 3 hours to the 19 students that were successfully selected for the AICAT 2019/2020 program. The induction program aimed at imparting the students with the basic must-knows of Israel and how to live and work in Israel.

Nineteen students from CAVs have received an eleven months scholarship for the Arava International Center for Agriculture Training (AICAT) program in Israel from August 1, 2019. AICAT is a professional and successful agricultural program based on “Learning by Doing”. The program is intended for undergraduate students studying agricultural courses mostly in Asia and Africa. Students are attached to farms in the Arava region where they are exposed to high technologies and advanced agriculture.

The Office of Career Services wishes the students traveling to the Arava a safe journey and a nice stay as they acquire more knowledge in mechanized agriculture. It is hoped that when the students come back home they will become agripreneurs and create jobs for others.