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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Technology and faults. I do not know why my card is reading Sen. Cheptumo, but thank you for the opportunity. I will make a few remarks in support of Sen. Kibwana’s Statements on the State of Welfare and Street Families of Children. All of us, including us here in the Senate, are literally one sickness away from being in the streets. Affordable healthcare has become too high that even just one sickness can put a whole family out on the streets. We are having harambees to ensure people can access medical care. We are having all sorts of desperate situations just to save one life of a family. Sen. Kibwana’s Statement on the street families and children portrayed a real situation. It can happen to any one of us even here in the Senate. I can see Sen. Oketch Gicheru in the House and it is as real as having Sen. Oketch Gicheru going to live on the streets because of one sickness. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this Statement was presented to the Floor. Being a Member of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, I thought that while we will look at it on a social welfare kind of mitigation, some issues have to be addressed, particularly the issue of job creation. We are living in times where we have to be intentional on creating jobs. Jobs come from entrepreneurship. It is all inter-twined. As much as this will be pushed to the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, I find myself thinking that the Committee on Education should be part of it. Our education should also be geared to educating our children to become entrepreneurs and stop looking for employment and set up businesses. While we address the current situation of the street children and families by offering some form of social welfare, we will also be mitigating that in the next 10 to 15 years, we will not have any Kenyan in the streets because they have a source of income through employment or entrepreneurship. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I was thinking of how we talk about affordable housing, which the Kenya Kwanza Government is trying to implement. This is one of the issues that needs to be really prioritised. Street families are not out in the streets because they are not earning. Some of them have jobs and earn. However, the problem is that they cannot afford to even pay rent or have homes wherever they want to settle. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I support Sen. Kibwana’s Statement, I pray that you do not think of it as a narrow thing to send the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. This is a multi-faceted issue that even touches on our education and how we can push for entrepreneurship."
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