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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "content": "The sad reality is that 65 per cent of our women lack basic necessities to manage their periods. These are facts that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) cannot afford as it was suspended by President Trump. Two out of three Kenyan women cannot afford sanitary pads, which is why we have issues such as sex in exchange for the sanitary pads. Girls are giving out their bodies. They are being used as sex objects so that they can afford sanitary pads for that month. It is tragic. We need the boy child to be part of what we call period poverty or period shaming. When girls start menstruation in primary school, some young boys and the society frown upon them. That is why that girl committed suicide. It was because of period shaming. An average of one million girls in this country miss three to four academic days per month unlike the boy child who is able to attend school throughout the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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