Education is one of the key elements of social and economic development in Samburu. The county’s department of education has taken great strides on the course for the realization of this dream having established 220 new early childhood educational centers and improved the existing under a tree centers fully equipped with furniture, education materials and 120 water tanks. functional ECD centers rose from 290 to 529. Additionally, 400 ECDE teachers have been recruited to teach at this centers. Tremendous improvements at the local Primary schools enrollments have been witnessed in the recent past due to the positive uptakes at the ECDE centers. The department had also embarked on a bursaries and scholarships programme for needy students at the colleges and universities and had so far spent Ksh 180 Million since devolution.