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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Sen. Thang’wa has been one of the supportive legislators on this Bill for the longest time. The people of Kiambu should know that they have a champion of women’s rights when it comes to provision of free sanitary towels. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to summarise by painting a picture of what this Bill is all about if it passes and it is implemented. Right now, money is allocated by the National Assembly. After that, it is taken to either the Ministry of Gender, Culture, the Arts and Heritage or the Ministry of Education. In this financial year, it will be taken to the Ministry of Gender, Culture, the Arts and Heritage, which will then send that that money to the Women Representatives. The Women Representatives will procure those sanitary pads through their offices and distribute them. Distribution at that level looks like this. You get a supplier who has gotten a tender. Sometimes they are told to purchase, say, 90,000 sanitary packets of sanitary pads. I do not know whether you know what 90,000 packets looks like. It is very bulky. Once they supply, they dump the whole thing at the Women Representative’s offices. Sometimes the offices are not equipped to handle that kind of storage. Since there is urgency to distribute, the Women Representatives get stuck in mashinani to ensure that 90,000 or 100,000 packets are distributed as fast as possible because there is no storage and framework. Therefore, they go to the schools very quickly to distribute. That is the picture of how provision of free sanitary towels looks like now. If this Bill passes and it is implemented, this is how that picture will look like. Firstly, the national committee will sit down and determine the most vulnerable counties dealing with period poverty and period shaming based on statistics given. So, it will be driven by numbers and facts. After that, they will allocate money depending on the number of wards or schools. So, it will be driven by actual facts. Once that money is allocated to the county intergovernmental committee--- The county committee will be made up of representatives including all wards. There will be subject matter The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services, Senate."
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