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    "id": 132836,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/132836/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Mathenge",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Development",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 77,
        "legal_name": "Esther Murugi Mathenge",
        "slug": "esther-murugi"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a)The Women Enterprise Development Fund (WEDF) targets all Kenyan women as individual, registered groups or companies owned by women. The Fund uses two distribution channels to reach the clientele, namely, the Constituency Women Enterprise Scheme, through the constituency, and each constituency has Kshs1 million, and also through the financial beneficiaries, which are twelve micro-financiers. (b) The financial intermediaries are free to lend money to individual groups or companies owned by women. The various women groups were funded as follows: Nairobi, 152 groups, Kshs7 million; Coast Province, 489 groups; Eastern Province, 615 groups; Western Province, 430 groups; Central Province, 484 groups; Nyanza Province, 663 groups; Rift Valley Province, 914 groups and North Eastern Province, 166 groups. A total of 3,913 groups composed of 91,910 individual women members were funded. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, under the financial intermediaries we have lent as follows:-"
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