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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Lesrima",
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        "legal_name": "Simon Saimanga Lesirma",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in fact, to deny children the opportunity to obtain early childhood education and miss out on foundation is almost a violation of their rights. Children deserve education, but we need to be a bit innovative in the way we provide education. If we are going to institutionalise everything and provide early childhood education in the manner we provide primary school education, in terms of provision of buildings and standard teaching, it will be very expensive. We need to understand that children live in the villages. August 22, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3353 Let me talk about two marginalised groups. Let us take the Kibera slum, for example. The way you deliver early childhood education to children in Kibera would be completely different from the way you deliver it to children in non-marginalised areas. We may, probably, want to copy what the Colombians do, and identify certain homes within the slums and improve those homes. There was a World Bank-funded project which facilitated that initiative - so that children are taught within a home. So, we may wish to have a new definition of a child care centre or a nursery school. We could give incentives, improve that home, provide some allowance for that volunteer- cum-teacher in the initial stages, because I do not think we can be in a position to employ all the teachers. That way, children can be dropped at various centres in the slums. Similarly, we have experiences in pastoral areas. In Samburu, for example, we had the Christian Children Fund, providing education."
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