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    "id": 1029542,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "we are keen about them. When talking matters health, it also touches schools. There is need for children to be fed. In some schools, you will be surprised that they do not have a feeding programme for their children, even those in ECDs. There is need for governors to ensure that they are setting money aside to ensure that there is a feeding programme in all schools, so that disadvantaged children will get meals in schools because nutrition is important. The ad hoc Committee on the COVID-19 situation should have looked at how food is provided in schools with regard to helping children who come from vulnerable and disadvantaged families to cope with education. Madam Temporary Speaker, I will not fail to talk about children with disabilities who are prone and more at risk of getting COVID-19. Most county governments do not have a plan of how they can help children with disabilities. Even when schools are opening what runs in my mind is what county governments are doing about children with disabilities. Are they going to school or not? Are they making a follow up on them or not? There is need for the county governments to ensure that they are keen about the vulnerable. I remember in a school I went at some point, there was no IAK centre, without which it becomes difficult to place a child with disability in a school. Children with disabilities deserve to be in a school, get nutrition and have functional skills. It is painful that in special schools county governments are not providing masks. Likewise, the national Government is not providing masks. It should be a collaborative venture to ensure that education goes on. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I support the Report and recommend the formation of another ad hoc Committee to be formed to follow matters education."
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