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"content": "inadequate. Apart from infrastructure, the teachers need to be taken care of and given a salary and benefits. It cannot be a flat rate of, say Kshs10,000 per month with no other benefits like medical cover, National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) and the National Social Security Fund (NSSF). This is a critical Motion. Apart from the infrastructure and the teachers, we also need to appreciate the children. They should be playing. You cannot put children in a classroom where there is no sign that it belongs to children. You should go to areas where there have been campaigns to eradicate jiggers and see the type of classrooms where we subject our children to; it is unfortunate. People tend to take care of primary schools when children go to Class One, but neglect the ECDE. The 10 per cent proposal may not be adequate, but it could be a good beginning for governors to see the seriousness of having proper infrastructure for our children. Secondly, if we talk about daycare, most of the parents in the rural areas go to look for food. The people who take care of families in rural areas are women. They concern themselves with the feeding of children. However, the general taking care of families is left to the mothers who are at the child bearing stage. This means at some stage they need somebody to help them. They may not pay for salaries for caretakers who are expensive not only in Nairobi, but also in rural areas. A daycare, to me, could also be very basic that the county governments should be looking into. When you leave your child with the type of house-helps that we see, you will go to work or go do your business, but half of your mind will be where your child is. We have heard about many things that have happened to children. For example, many children have been abducted or stolen, and that is the end of that child. The parents cannot trace them. This is because of lack of facilities like daycare. Some of them could even be made private, so long as it is done within the school with the agreement of the county governments. They can set it such that there is a daycare and a nursery school. The nursery school can be easily run by the county governments, but the daycare can also be privatized at a rate that can be affordable to most of the parents, who are living in the rural areas. This is a very timely Motion that should be developed from just a Motion to the next level, maybe a Bill. As I said earlier, we do not lack Bills but implementation. We can do the best Bills in this House, but implementation is a very big challenge. This is because of the people who are responsible for implementing the policies that are put in place, the Bills and all other related things. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is a big need for the county governments to set aside a substantial amount of money to take care of our nursery schools. It is at the nursery school that one forms himself of herself. That is when you learn the language. That is when you understand what the second language is all about. If you do not get it right at that point, even if you reach the university level, you will never get the language right because you never got it right, never had the right teacher and never had the right opportunity. So, you can be learned, yet you can see some gaps. Madam Temporary Speaker, we see that everywhere. You can see that someone had a very good formation at the right level, but some people missed it. Once you miss it, you miss it throughout your life. Therefore, nursery school is very critical and giving it The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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