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    "id": 1393550,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Moiben, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Phylis Bartoo",
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    "content": "especially those who do not have family members or a place to call home. Sometimes we have others loitering in the streets for lack of a place to stay or call home. So, the Government can go further with the process of providing houses for other Kenyans and identify a space where we can put the PWDs together and have a combined effort of taking care of them by having some caregivers take care of them during the day and others during the night. It is not easy for people to volunteer to just take care of someone. If the PWDs are put together in a home, for instance, and people are assigned duties such as feeding, taking care of them, looking at their medical needs and all other issues related to them, I think it is going to be in order. If you look at the society at the moment, in every 10 homes, there is always one PWD. The people who are taking care of these people are strained and some even run away. We also have those who have been left to live on their own. Nobody cares about them. There are those whose relatives feel ashamed to be identified with them and are just left on their own. So, how I wish we re-look at these caregivers, identify and vet them, and ensure they are remunerated just like the way we pay salaries to our civil servants such as teachers and Members of Parliament. It will become work with a job description on what they are supposed to do when they wake up every day early in the morning. That way, people living with severe disabilities will be catered for. Family members do not always accept to take care of them. If we mainstream the job and give it a description, it will go a long way in shaping this. As proposed before, these schemes should be re-looked into and merged so that we have one welfare for the elderly and everybody else."
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