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    "id": 1560717,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1560717/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Machakos County, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joyce Kamene",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity to air my views on the Learners with Disabilities Bill (Senate Bill No.4 of 2023). I applaud the minds that came up with this great Bill. I have heard the Departmental Committee on Education Chairperson articulate it, and I believe this is long overdue. If there is one thing I am passionate about, it is children living with disabilities. I have travelled to various schools across my county, and I can attest that most students studying in Special Schools are learning in deplorable environments. Just last month, the head teacher of Wamunyu School for the Mentally Handicapped called for assistance because the school toilet had sunk. They did not know what to do, as no funding was available. The parents could afford to put up another toilet. When she called for a meeting with the parents, they cried, asking where they would take the children. With this kind of framework, institutions will have a clear policy on how to run the schools and how they will be funded. I also visited another facility in Masinga, where special needs students in the primary school shared the same dormitories as the boarders. The school was looking for ways to ensure the young boys did not cross over to the young girls because the boys had attempted to access the girls’ sleeping quarters. What does this say? These schools have been neglected for a long time. In some parts of the country, there are so many of these institutions that funding is not enough. Even the capitation that is forwarded to those schools is never enough."
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