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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Maathai",
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        "legal_name": "Wangari Muta Maathai",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. I want to agree with other Members on the seriousness of the issues, of hunger and famine in this country. I am also very happy with the way the Minister spoke in support of this Motion. I am very grateful for the fact that the CDF Act allows us to spend at least 10 per cent of the money to support children in secondary schools. In my constituency, most of this money goes to support orphans. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, although we do not have much money, I think the Minister for Education should consult with the National Aids Control Council (NACC). That must surely be one of the bodies whose money we do not see what it does. One of its biggest mistakes is to give institutions money or CBOs at the constituency level; groups that we know nothing about and cannot monitor. It is amazing that, that money is literally going to waste, yet it is the kind of money that could be given through CDF committees and would go directly to the orphans. That consultation should go on if we are serious about supporting these children. Right now, this money is literally going to waste. One of the other issues that we have raised in this House many times is the fact that there are many children, including orphans, who are not able to go and seek for jobs when they complete secondary education, because they cannot complete payment of their high school fees. This House passed a Motion to address this issue and we thought children would be given their school-leaving certificates and examination results so that they can move on. Every time I go to my constituency, parents come to me complaining that their children do not have their documents because they are held by the headteachers."
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