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    "id": 1091928,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.48 (1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Education on the high dropout rates of school-going children but specifically school-going girls. In the Statement the Committee should: - (1) Outline the strategies in place to ensure that teenage girls who drop out of school are tracked, enrolled and proceed with their education. (2) Explain the mechanisms that have been instituted to guarantee high retention and transition of teenage girls in primary and secondary schools. (3) Appraise the Senate on the policies in place that ensure teenage girls exposed to social vices such as early marriages receive psycho-social support to rehabilitate and reintegrate them into school systems for optimal learning. (4) Inform the Senate on the status of identification and prosecution of individuals responsible for impregnating our girls and marrying school-going teenage girls. (5) Outline targeted interventions if any to support teenage mothers to raise their children to ensure the risk of receding and going back and the vicious cycle is not then repeated. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, please give me one minute to just explain that this issue has been in the Press, but we are not seeing specific action and support that is being given to these girls. This cannot be just for entertainment. We need answers from the Ministry as to the specifics of how these girls are being reintegrated back. We cannot just say that when they give birth we send them back to school because they still have to look after their children. What is being done to support them in this process? A vicious cycle is being created here because they have to also go back to the same habits that brought about the pregnancy in the first place to now look after their children."
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