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"speaker_name": "Hon. Ndiritu",
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"content": "Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this timely Motion. I have a history of having worked with an organization that has been sponsoring children poor backgrounds. The opportunities lost by children from poor backgrounds are very clear in my mind. Many students who get fewer marks are not helped. Just last week I placed a child at Naivasha High School. He had scored 371 marks and would not be admitted in a day school somewhere. He came to me for assistance in June, 2013. I was very disappointed. I could say that, perhaps, this Motion has come on my behalf. I would like to suggest that we harmonize the bursaries. There are students who get bursaries during the first term and in second term they are denied. Bursaries from the CDF and the Ministry of Education need to be harmonized. The data bank would be the best point of reference. This is because all those who get opportunities will permanently be on that list. For those who went to school many years ago, the competition was not as it is today. The disadvantaged children are mostly found at the primary level. You know the case of"
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