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    "id": 1498662,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": " Thank you, Cabinet Secretary, through the Speaker. I recently took a young girl who had not gone to school because her parents had no money to buy uniforms. This was a public school in Nairobi County. The cost of mattresses, blankets and everything the family needed was Ksh30,000. That transition is not happening at the moment. Since you provide beds in the boarding facilities, can you also provide mattresses? Some of the children buy one-inch or two-inch mattresses, while others buy second-hand mattresses, which are ruining their backs for the future. That becomes a health hazard. When I talk about the standardisation of uniforms, in South Africa, all the schools practically wear the same grey, black simple dress and a white shirt. Here, we have made uniforms that are so complicated and very expensive. I was just wondering, in your opinion, as per your policy, because we want a 100 per cent transition, if a family is unable to buy uniforms, can it be able to send their children to school with their home clothes? I still feel that uniforms are very colonial. Most schools in America, France and England no longer have uniforms. Children go with their home clothes. So, where a family cannot afford school uniforms, what is your policy on the child being admitted to school to study, whether she has uniforms or not? It is becoming prohibitive, and it is denying the child the transition to the school. Thank you."
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