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    "id": 1268799,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1268799/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13374,
        "legal_name": "Richard Ken Chonga Kiti",
        "slug": "richard-ken-chonga-kiti"
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    "content": "When focusing on the introduction of health promotion, it needs to be done in a child- friendly way. I am aware of programmes the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) introduced. They tried to introduce child-friendly participatory health education. They tried to use churches, communities, leaderships within Parliament, and leaderships within our counties. That is so that children, parents and community leaders are more comfortable on engaging children about sexual health education. These efforts have not been very successful. Even as the House passes this Motion and hopefully discusses it as a Bill, I recommend that we focus on having comprehensive child-friendly health education promotion so that our children and adults feel free. If our children do not get comprehensive health education from our schools and they do not get it from their parents, they will get it from the strangers. We do not know how this is going to happen. We are already seeing the effects of children getting to know about their bodies from strangers. We also have computers because of online teaching. Children are tempted to go beyond the class and check other aspects within information technology. Some may find themselves coming across sexual education. We would rather do it in our schools, churches, communities, as Parliament, and through our education system so that children do not get to learn from strangers. I would also like to focus on our TV channels. We have local TV channels that are not 100 per cent easy to control on what our children see. I know the Government has been clear on what you can air during the day and up to around 9.00 p.m. However, there are children who are up until late and can see so many other things that our system does not expect them to see. Additionally, our children are exposed to international television channels where they can see almost everything they would like to see. I encourage that it is time our children are educated so that they know how far they can go in terms of what they see on these channels. I encourage that this be done within our education system so that we control the kind of information our children consume."
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