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    "id": 1166342,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "When we started this school, we had very few teachers who had the skills to deal with children with special needs and we had to benefit from volunteers who came from UK. Those volunteer corps that normally come from UK and US are generally not trained. All they have is a big heart. So, sometimes we cede our compassion to foreigners due to our own lack of compassion. We have people who are probably very well trained in this country, but they are not compassionate. When you take them to a school with children with special needs, they mistreat them. We saw sometimes those children who had some mental difficulties being tied on poles and posts like animals and yet these actions are being done by persons who are supposed to have had training. Training without compassion is not enough. Those British volunteers were young boys and girls of perhaps 19 years old who had just completed school. They showed us what compassion means and what difference it makes. That person who the entire society has given up on, and whose job is to roam around the market place and collect garbage at the end of the day---. That person, given an opportunity, there is a talent and a skill and ability in them that can be nurtured to make them useful members of society. We need to look at that. We need to look at those persons born or have acquired disabilities in the course of their lives. Let us give them equal opportunities and provide them with equitable opportunities so that they exploit their hidden potential. As I said, Reuben Kigame is a very good example of a musician who has overcome adversity to run for presidency today. The fact that he is not getting a lot of coverage in the media is simply because beside his talent, compassion and skills he has not stolen money to stage big shows and convoys like anybody else. I wish him well because he is a very good representative of the small community of persons born with or acquired disabilities, but have overcome them to achieve and accomplish much more than those who God gave all their faculties. I pray that we fast track this Bill. As Sen. Cherargei said, I pray that this become a poster Bill from the Senate and from this Parliament. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am eagerly waiting for the vote so that this Bill can get to the President’s desk. With that, I beg to support."
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