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    "id": 1555596,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Nyamu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. This is a very good Bill for all intents and purposes. It is an open secret that Kenya is going through a lot of period poverty. Period poverty is defined as the inability to access period products, clean water and a hygienic environment during the period. The main cause of period poverty is not the lack of water, period stigma or lack of sanitation. The main cause of period poverty is the high cost of period products. Statistics show that 65 per cent of women and girls in Kenya cannot afford sanitary products. About 95 per cent of our menstruating girls have to miss school for a day or two days when they are on their period. We cannot continue to normalise such alarming statistics and the effect that they have on the education of a girl child. One might ask, how have we managed all this time? We have been filling the gap through donations. We have had an NGO here and a philanthropist there. The women representatives can also donate some sanitary pads, but they do not meet the entire needs that we have in our schools and our prisons. So, why not adopt this legislative proposal and the legal structure that Sen. Orwoba is proposing and fine-tune? Everyone here represents people and we all know the dire need on the ground."
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