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"content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute on this Motion. This is an extremely important Motion, in my view, because it addresses the needs of needy and poor students. Any nation that cannot take care of its poor and vulnerable people is not worth being called a nation. We have realized that in this country. Our Constitution takes care of the vulnerable people and the leading cause of vulnerability is poverty. You find that in Articles 43, 54 on disability and 53 on children and orphans. Before that, there are many Government programmes, about eleven, in various departments that are dealing with issues of poverty. Amongst them are children and the bursaries that they need. Also, there are programmes for the poor, old and people with disabilities. In this House, we have had three Motions since we started, that are dealing with issues of vulnerability. We need to take a wholesome approach to this. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we have put in place a Social Protection Bill and there is a big social protection programme that is going into that. I would, therefore, urge the Implementation Committee to look at all the Motions that have been passed and put them together in the Social Protection Act, and come up with a programme. That is what they did in Brazil. Then you have a single registry that deals with all aspects of poverty, whether it is old age, health care needs or bursaries for students, so that everything can be implemented. I am aware that some Members are worried that those things are not going to be implemented."
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