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    "content": "They are not just teachers, but also mentors of those children. They have more work to do than just the normal teaching. So, they should be well remunerated. Madam Temporary Speaker, one critical issue which came up in this report is the issue of school feeding programmes. In some areas, the absence or the presence of school feeding programmes determines whether one goes to school or not. That in itself is an incentive for the children to attend school. For example, every time there is drought in the northern part of Kenya, the children drop out of school because there is no food. They follow their parents and their animals and so the whole system collapses until it rains, then they come back. At least, if there is the school feeding programme, children will be able to remain in schools. Their parents can go after their animals, but the children will remain in schools and learning will continue. Those who will have gone through the ECDs will transit to primary schools. The rate of transition will rise and with time, we will have a population which can develop itself and which can take care of itself unlike the situation we have now where our literacy levels are stagnant. I also wish to emphasize the point which the Committee has captured, that the county government has to invest, not only in infrastructure and teachers, but in the school feeding programmes for these children. This is in order to ensure that the children are in school, we can capture their attention and time in order to improve the literacy levels and have an educated society. We need people who understand why they are in this country and why they need to be united with others. Right now, when people have not gone to school, there are some things, in some areas, they find difficult to get out of. A group of people who have not gone to school, who still follow their traditions will find it difficult to co-exist with another group because, for a long time they have just been fighting over resources and may be raiding each other. There are persistent cases such as the Pokot, Turkana and Samburu. My understanding as I am reading from this is that if these people have gone to school, that kind of hatred will also cease because they will know that they are from the same country, which they have to unify. Starting from early childhood, education will be able to eradicate some of these problems. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support the report."
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