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    "id": 1088438,
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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": "We did realize that it had a lot of nutrients in it and a lot of cream. Children would always look forward to going to school. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on issues of great nutrition, particularly to the kids, milk plays a very critical role in enhancing the bone mass. Come the future at old age, the bones as an adult will not break. Milk is seen as something simple but it has nutrients that go a long way to ensure that there is health in the future. Apart from this, in issues of good nutrition, milk is included because it has got a lot of nutrients in it. It has phosphorus, amino acids and calcium important in bone formation. A study in the journal of nutrition and dietetics spoke to this. Milk plays a very critical role in kids particularly in their later years in school. Those kids that have heard good nutrition including milk have reading skills, command in mathematics, sciences and their development is enhanced. This study is also supported by a study of 1,300 US institutes of health. That children who get healthy food including milk will in later years grow string. They will be resistant to disease when in school. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have realized cases where many kids are susceptible to diseases. Government has been trying to treat but then prevention is better than cure. This can be prevented by ensuring that there is milk. Sen. Kwamboka has spoken at length that milk can go a long way. If we can supply milk to our kids, they will provide even market for our dairy farmers. It is another way of enhancing economy in our country. In our Committee, we will amend this Bill by ensuring that in areas where there is not milk, there will be a substitute that has something similar to what is in milk so that we have all these kids in this country having milk. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I said when we were interrogating ECDE centers across counties, we realized that there were people who neglected this. Those people who have encouraged Public Private Partnership (PPP) like the World Food program (WFP) are able to feed their kids and they are very healthy. The number of kids in those institutions are many. I support the fact that there should be provision of milk in our schools. I beg to second the Basic Education (Amendment) Bill, 2021."
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