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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Crystal Asige",
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    "content": "That is not on my identification (ID) card. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Bill and congratulate the sponsor on coming up with some of the provisions. This is especially provisions in Part I, Clause 7 and other parts of the Bill, regarding the inclusion of PWDs in these training centres. To be brief, so that I can allow other Senators to also contribute, I will just get straight to the point. As you know and as has already been said here, not every single person is an academic. Unfortunately, in PWDs community, this is not something that is voluntary. It is not even to do with our intelligence or capacity; but more to do with the systemic oppression and barriers to education that we have been facing since Adam. The TVETs centres are an amazing and fantastic alternative for the PWDs to engage their creativity and learn new skills. The new skills are not just to enable them cope in their daily lives; but also to share their talents with the world. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know if you know this but the PWDs have to be extremely creative in their day to day lives. You can imagine somebody with a physical, intellectual or neuro-diversity disability, needs to do tenfold just so that they can get by their day. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we do dispense a lot of our energy and intellect engaging and tapping into different parts of our brain to be creative as possible just to get"
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