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    "content": "It should not be difficult to map out those students because if you look at our villages, we have village elders who are based there. You can talk to them because they know everybody in the village. They know who is poor or rich, and even who steals from others. If we use that system, they will tell us students who come from poor backgrounds and we will get the right information. The Ministry will then be in a position to have a data bank which will show us who is poor and who is not. With such a data bank, hon. Members seated here, who will be in charge of the CDF that has a bursary component, will know who to give that money. They will not spend a lot of time thinking about such children, or going through the process of identifying who is needy or not. To some extent, this is going to avoid a situation where most of those students have not benefited because of being unknown. We tell them to pick application forms from our offices and apply, but what happens is that the poor are disadvantaged in terms of accessing information. In most cases, they do not know this information and when they know about the application for the bursaries, by the time they get the application form, it is too late to apply. So, if we have this data bank for all constituencies ready, it will be very easy to target disbursement of bursaries to our students. It is going to help them and will reduce poverty rates in the constituencies. The whole process will be inclusive, and all Kenyans will have a sense of belonging."
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