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    "content": "teachers lack proper training and, another thing, they are also very few. So, the community has to pay for the teachers whereby when you bring your child to the ECD centre and then you are forced to either pay Kshs20 or Kshs50 so that your child is taught. Madam Temporary Speaker, from Nyamira County, we went to Kisii County where we visited a polytechnic and an ECD centre. The problems we found in these two counties tended to be the same; the problem of feeding the ECD children and also lack of teachers with proper training. Another thing we noticed in Kisii was that the children were being taught in their mother tongue. The Committee recommended that we sort out the problem of curriculum so that it is standardized all over the country. This way, we will know that the child in Kisii County should be taught either in English, Kiswahili or proper languages that will then develop them to be at the same level with a child going to Cavina School, because at some point, they are going to compete in the same examination at some level. Madam Temporary Speaker, we then visited Kisumu County where we went to Ayawa Primary, an ECD centre in the school. We also went to Dr. Logumbi High School, where we attended a prize giving day and we awarded top students, both boys and girls. The problem in Kisumu County was a bit different. There were proper ECD centres, but in a class of 50 children, they only have 20 chairs. The school was sponsored by an organization in the county. Then, again, we realized that most of these ECD centres are either supported by the community or other organizations, but very few are Government supported. From there, we went to visit the governor. At least he has tried to sort out the problem about ECD feeding, and we were trying to encourage all other counties to emulate this county; to have a farm in the school where they can grow food to assist in feeding the children. We also recommended in other counties that if you are able to take your child to this school in the morning without feeding them, what if they were at home? You would have fed them; so, we were encouraging the teachers to encourage the parents to carry something for their children, like give a gorogoro of---"
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