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    "speaker_name": "West Pokot County, KUP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rael Kasiwai",
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    "content": "the Motion tabled by the Member. I am a beneficiary of this programme which was there a long time ago, like the Nyayo Milk. That milk was very sweet. It made us look forward to going to school. I do not know where the rain started beating us that caused such programmes to stop. I thank this House because everybody who has spoken is supporting it. The school feeding programmes have a lot of benefits to our schools. One of them being retention of learners in schools. In West Pokot County, children go to school because of that food. Sometimes it is given by the WFP and other NGOs. But that amount of food is not enough. So, it can be given for two to three days and then it gets finished. Children then go back home to stay. Another importance of having these programmes in schools is that it reduces infamous behaviours in children, such as stealing from each other. When children are given the same amount of food and all of them are fed uniformly, there will be no stealing on the premise that others have while others may not have food. By giving meals in schools, the performance in examinations will improve. Children are going to be in school most of their time. They will have enough time to revise, hence improving their results. I have practically seen it, and it is the reason I support this Motion. It also helps those learners from poor households to go to school. In West Pokot County, most parents do not have food due to poor rains. So, having food in schools will help keep such children in schools. The school feeding programmes will tremendously improve the health of learners. We all know that a healthy nation is a wealthy nation. Malnutrition could be done away with hence we shall have a healthy nation in the long run. The school feeding programme has a lot of importance and I cannot mention all of them. I hope we will fully implement it. I hope we are not just going to debate about it and leave it here. We hope the Government will do something so that this programme is fully implemented in our schools to ensure our children go to school."
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