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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Mugo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Beth Wambui Mugo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the DICECE centres, we have programmes to encourage and involve parents, guardians and communities to take their children for early childhood education. Right now, we cannot make that compulsory until the system is included in the FPEP, which means that no child will be required to pay unless the parents decide to take them to private institutions. This is only three years away, but it sounds like a long time to come. However, by the year 2010, the FPEP will include the ECDE. In the meantime, we encourage parents and communities to make sure that they take their children for the early childhood education programme. We also have that problem in primary schools where children are enroled before they get to six years because primary education free. For that child to keep up with the children in his or her class, we encourage the parents not to send them too early to school because they have not developed enough to keep up with the rest of the peers. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are also working in collaboration with the Ministries of Health; Water and Irrigation; Planning and National Development; Gender, Sports, Culture and Social Services; the Office of the Vice-President and Ministry of Home Affairs and other line Ministries because developing a child at that early stage is not only for them to learn how to read and write, it is a holistic approach. We have proper programmes to make sure that these children are offered holistic growth and development. That is what we are working on. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me add here that I agree that there are some children who are not able to attend early childhood classes. That is the problem we are tackling. We intend to come up with a proper programme by the year 2010."
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