 in a very special way to congratulate our President of the Athletics Kenya and now Vice President of the World Athletics General today. Let me also take this opportunity again in a very special way to recognize the various teams that have participated in different places representing our country. Congratulations, teams. Thank you. This afternoon, to be part of this grand occasion of commissioning of Talanta House, the new home of the Minister of Youth Affairs, Arts and Sports, this project reflects our commitment to sports youth and arts and is now the nerve center of the Talanta Hela Initiative, our flagship program to monetize talent in our country. It is the new home of the advancement of sports, the growth of arts and the empowerment of our young people across all talents. This is the new home of sports promotion, football, Volvo, swimming, golf, motorsport, tennis, cycling, shooting, archery and cricket among many. This building brings together all ministry staff under one roof. This will promote collaboration, build synergies and facilitate a constant exchange of ideas and knowledge across the ministry. I now want to ask that we accelerate the process of moving all the departments from all over the place to this building and with that I hope we can build on the already successful work that the ministry is doing and I hope it will reflect in due course in the achievement that we will have not just the talent administration but as a nation. With all the staff in close proximity we can harness their collective expertise, break down society and foster a culture of cross disciplinary collaboration and bring much more understanding to the space that you are charged with. The Talenta Hala initiative is a true bottom-up program focused on empowerment, the creation of opportunities and the transformation of sports, youth affairs and arts into a viable vehicle for transforming our country and expanding opportunities for IRP. In the monetization of talent with bolster, entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth through the conversion of passions into livelihoods, creating an empowered and a self-reliant generation and people. Through Talenta Hala we encourage our young people to dream big and pursue their artistic and sporting goals with and weathering contamination and renewed urgency. The government is committed to providing the infrastructure that will return international football to Kenya in a very significant and intentional way. We are prioritizing the completion and upgrading of stored oil facilities in optimal utility areas and high potential talent zones. I know you were all aware of the debate in Kenya about the study and the study. Many people all the time reminded me about the study and how they were not complete. We now have the opportunity to prove the mental that we are made of by making sure that we complete all the study. That is why I asked CSR Babu to have a master plan for not just completing what we have but also making sure that we expand opportunities to other areas and not just that, making sure that all the study that we built meet international standards and can be accredited for any international sport. We are at this moment upgrading the Moe International Sports Center, Kasarali, Nyayonesino Stadium and the Kichogi-Ekaino Stadium in Everett. This once we boost our bid to co-host the 2027 African Cup of Nations with Tanzania and Uganda. The ministry is also charged with the crucial mandate of youth development as indicated in the Executive Order No. 1 of 9 January 2023. This morning, a few hours ago, I signed into law the Climate Summit and the Climate Council and that mainstreamed the participation of youth in the challenge of climate change. And I expect the ministry responsible for youth to give us the young people who will drive the opportunities that exist even as we tackle the challenge of climate change. Today, 30% of Kenya's population is between the age of 18 and 35. We must invest in these young people to bring the best out of them so that their dynamic capacity for innovation and talent can contribute to the transformation of our nation and can open up many opportunities for them to participate in the development of our country. We are committed to investing in and developing the talent and innovativeness of our youth as we consider them integral to the creative economy pillar of our Potomac Economic Transformation agenda and essential to the entire plan, not just about the young people. The creative industry can significantly add value to Kenya's exports, such as fashion, leather products, craft industries, among others. And just so that you know that we are looking into that space, if you interrogate the incentives and the interventions that we have provided in our finance act that now we are implementing, there is a whole space around leather and the leather industry and making sure that we use the resources that are available to us, Kenya being the country that has the third largest heart of livestock, that leather becomes part and parcel of our exports in finished product form. And our young people are invited to opportunities in that space and I hope the ministry will work with the other departments of government to make sure that these opportunities are not lost. Further, we will mainstream the creative economy into drug Kenya and our commercial diplomacy, including appointing accomplished Kenyan artists and creative sector personalities as cultural ambassadors. I am looking forward to working with all the stakeholders in this space, all the professionals in that sector, to identify the people who will drive the commercialization of the assets that we have, including creatives, including culture and the whole of that ecosystem. I also believe that our tourism product need to be enriched much more by our cultural heritage. I have told the peers responsible for that space to work with all the other stakeholders so that culture, especially the fact that Kenya is the home of humanity, becomes part and parcel of what we showcase as a country. To promote the concept of innovation startups, the Presidential Innovative Challenge is scheduled to take off this month and will culminate in the Commonwealth Innovation Week, where we will award the best innovations and top startups as part of the Kenya at 60 celebrations later this year. On the 12th of August, 2023, the Ministry led the Observance of International Youth Day under the theme Green Skills for Youth Towards a Sustainable World. I applaud the focus on sustainability and encourage the Ministry to bring more young people into climate action and environmental protection. I had just come from a youth summit and I was thrilled and encouraged and I was actually wonderfully in a very informed way challenged by what the young people of Kenya, the passion, the commitment, the creativity and innovation around what they are doing to deal with the challenge of climate change but to also, on the flip side, explore the opportunities that come with the solutions that are proposed for climate change. And let me encourage you as a youth ministry to continue to work with all the other stakeholders in all the other spaces so that we can leverage on every opportunity available to build our capacities that benefit the young people of Kenya. We have recruited, for example, a 4,000 strong green army on contract to support our national tree planting program and ecosystem restoration program. We intend to scale this up towards 50,000 as we roll out fully our tree planting exercise and ecosystem restoration initiatives. In order to address the resource constraints raising observation of the International Youth Day and its build up activities, I direct the Ministry of Finance, other Treasury to create a budgetary vote item that will be reinforced for the provision of funds for the national youth, new build up activities and the observance of the International Youth Day every year starting from financial year 24,000 to 25,000. On Marsaba, we won silver medal with 500,000 shillings. We are rewarding our basketball team that won silver with a total of 600,000 shillings. We are rewarding Feetum Rasa and Shufa Rua Changawa with 200,000 shillings for Brent's bronze medal in beach tennis. We are rewarding Mathayo Mabahila bronze medal with 300,000 shillings in wrestling. We are rewarding Lawrence Karanja who is the coach of the tennis team. We are not leading you behind so coach Lawrence, please come forward. Coach Lina Suwashoka of Beach Wrestling, please come forward. And Felix Porchino, the technical official. All the rewards to this team amount to 3.28 million donations. Let us have the check for the beach games quickly. The dummy check is consolidated and will be presented to the captain of the team. Captain is right by your side. Next, we will reward our team that participated in the youth Commonwealth games in Trader and Tobago, our youth team. This team won five gold medals. Let us give it up for them. Five gold medals. Kikurui Josephat San, 350,000 shillings. Kikurui Wantugon. Mweshme Wadan Wanyama, the coach. The coach is coming. Coach, coach. Coach, coach. Coach, please gender him. Mweshme Wadan Wanyama is a brilliant volleyball player and he is alright. So he is a legend of this game. Yes, that is a coach. Mweshme Wanyama is a brilliant volleyball player and he is alright. Mweshme Wanyama is a brilliant volleyball player and he is alright. Emanuel Wanyoni, Beatrice Chekkoic, Daniel Simil. For Super Medal, they win 1.5 million shillings each. Faith Cherotich, Beatrice Chebet, Jakob Kroep, Abraham Kibiwot receive 1 million shillings each for their bronze medals.