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    "id": 1087909,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "called Wawira Njiru, who has a Food for Education Programme. Some of the Members of Parliament (MPs) in Nairobi and I have partnered with her. If you go to Dagoretti South today, the parents of Mukarara Primary School are involved with Food for Education Programme. We are feeding 11 schools in one centre. I thank Hon. John K.J. Kiarie because he is the one who introduced me to this lady and the programme that we are partnering with. At Kshs15, a child is able to get 650 grams of food. Madam Temporary Speaker, I spoke to the principals when we went to Riruta. As a result of that, discipline and attendance have gone up. The children get food, they eat half and the other half they take home to their siblings because there is nothing at home. We are now moving to Embakasi West Constiuency. Hon. George Theuri and Hon. Nixon Korir of Langata Constituency have agreed to partner. I will find time to talk about this, but I do not think that there is anything more important than making sure that our children’s nutritional needs are met. There are studies that have shown that performance and the general well-being goes up at that formative stage. I thank Sen. Kwamboka. Even before I wait for my Bill to get to that stage, I hope that she will accept us to improve on this. When we grew up in Nairobi, we used to wait for the days we would get maziwa ya nyayo. I am a product of the 8-4-4 system of education where we got maziwa ya nyayo in the brown packets. Those days, there would be 100 per cent class attendance because we knew that we would get maziwa ya nyayo on Friday. I think that we can be more creative. The numbers of the children who are in school today have gone up. There are much more than those who were there at that time. The parents would also put money to it. The capitation we send to schools is not enough. I want to thank the Rockefeller Foundation because they are also doing some research around this. That capitation we send to schools must involve feeding these kinds. If you do not feed them, they will get nothing. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this. I cannot wait for the proposed amendments and for my Bill to be fast tracked. I know that it is still in the House Business Committee (HBC), but I will push my colleagues like Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and the rest to fast track the National School Lunch Bill. It combines what Sen. Wambua did on the Mung Beans Bill. It is stimulus. If you get the farmers from around the schools to bring their product, you are stimulating the economy of that area. If it is in Western Region, we get maize. If it is in Kitui, we get the Mung Beans. If it is in pastoralist areas, we get what is grown locally and simulate the economy for the farmers around. Our children will get nutrition. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for your indulgence."
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