Kiambu Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) is a non-Denominational Technical Industrial, vocational & Entrepreneurship Training (TVET) Institute under the Ministry of Higher Education Science and Technology. Its 14 kilometres from the City of Nairobi.
It was built through Harambee effo… read morert by the local people and some generous donations from two Protestant church organizations I.C.C.O. of Netherlands and E.Z.E. of Germany. KIST admitted the first batch of 125 students, 75 male and 50 female in September 1973