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    "id": 251503,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Awori",
    "speaker_title": "The Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Moody Arthur Awori",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am not aware that there are 18,000 orphans in Butula Constituency. The National AIDS Control Council (NACC) carried out a survey, which covered this constituency, in 2005. It was discovered that there were only 7,937 orphans in Butula Constituency. (b) The Government is responding to the issue of orphans and vulnerable children nationally and no single part of the country has been left out. The Children's Department, which is within my Ministry, has established an area advisory council which is a sub-committee of the District Development Committee (DDC) in Busia, comprising of various district departmental heads such as the District Commissioner (DC), the Medical Officer of Health, the District Education Officer (DEO), the Children's Officer, the District Planning Officer, the District Labour Officer, representatives from non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and religious organisations. In Butula Division, there is a Divisional Children's Advisory Council chaired by the DO. This council exercises general supervision and control over the planning and co-ordination of the children's rights. The NACC, through the Constituency AIDS Control Co-ordinator in Busia, is funding 23 community-based organisations (CBOs), which are supporting a total of 1,060 children. The names of the CBOs and their target orphans, are attached to this answer as appendix 1. The tragedy of orphans in Kenya today is enormous, and requires all of us to work towards dealing with it."
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