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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "provide the right education, right materials, ensure that we ascertain that children are living in good environments and we are living in areas where everybody has an equal footing. All these speakers have spoken to the issue of the welfare of the teachers who are supposed to work in these institutions. We have had a challenge and, in many cases, the welfare of ECDE teachers has not been considered. Therefore, there has been a lot of frustration which impacts negatively on the young children. Sen. Shiyonga talked of standardization. If the Basic Education Department will develop this policy, it is one way that we can standardize ECDE daycare centers across the country. Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri has talked at length. When we talk about health and education, he is actually at home. He has really brought out how a day care centre should look like in terms of the graphics, classroom designs, play materials, trained staff and healthcare workers to ensure that these children are treated when they fall sick. We know it is in this area where there are a lot of respiratory diseases like cold, ringworms and many others. This one is in line with what Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve talked about in terms of assessment centres. Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri spoke to this as well. This is where we have staff that can assess children in these centers. This is in order to place them come the future to the right places. We may have children with autism or various levels of challenges. It is here where we can place them at the right schools. From that, we take it to schools where after five years we realize that there was a mistake. This is a very important input. We shall be able to incorporate these very important issues. From here, I learned that young children junk in and out. At the end of it all, we have children who are maladjusted. Madam Temporary Speaker, we also had Sen. Kang’ata speaking to issues of correlation. There is a strong relation between what we invest in young children and what comes out in the future. Researchers have strongly found that when we input properly to young children, come the future, they will have a very strong foundation in terms of their intellectual capability. Their development growth will go a long way to ensure that they are not vulnerable even to diseases. One thing that has come from Sen. (Eng.) Hargura is about the pastoralists. If they have day care centres, it would be very important to ensure that we bring on board these marginalized children. We have been talking about these marginalized communities. Some of them have been marginalized because they keep on moving from one place to another in search of pasture for their herds. In the course of doing so, children miss school. If these day care centres were there, instead of taking them to herd goats and cows, they will be taken to school and it is here where learning will begin. Madam Temporary Speaker, many Senators have underscored the importance of the feeding programme. The Committee on Labour and Social Welfare and the Committee on Education were scrutinizing the Budget Policy Statement. We also underscored the importance of the feeding programme which will ensure that these children stay in schools because there is food which they cannot get at their homes. Food is not only a motivator for them to go to school, but they will be healthy. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a very important Motion because counties will allocate at least 10 per cent of their budget to the ECDE. I urge the basic education department to develop a policy to ensure standardization of day care centres right across 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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