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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the first thing that I would suggest is that these issues about building the schools should be addressed on a long term basis rather than on a short term basis. It has taken close to 50 years after Independence, but the same problem still persists. It is, therefore, important that this problem is approached in a multi-sectoral way. In my view, it is not only education that has to attempt this. However, you should also go in there with agricultural activities, adequate security and social programmes within these communities in order to establish a long term solutions for those areas. This is how it should be done. It is not only in education that you should look at, but you should look at all those other parameters that make the communities that are living in those areas nomadic. It is important that they settle in a place so that we can establish institutions. Secondly, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we should also start to look at special conditions that should apply to these schools in geographically marginalized or sparsely populated areas. Some of the special conditions that you need to have in these schools are to have different term dates. I went to a school in Eastern Province. I had a colleague who came from Isiolo. When the school closed, he never used to go home. I kept asking him why he was not going home. He told me that he did not know where his parents had moved to. If we will establish these schools, we would rather have the children stay in one place and the parents be given the opportunity to visit them. The term dates can be altered. Amendments can be done so that we have these special schools and term dates altered, so that these schools do not close. The parents could, probably, visit the children in the schools and actually retain them there. One of the problems in these nomadic areas is that if you allow these children to go, even if they are in boarding schools, they are unlikely to come back to those schools again. It is important to make sure that we retain them in schools, otherwise, we will end up with infrastructure, but with no children. We need to look at how this will be done because we know there is a need for it. That is, perhaps, one of the ways to look at this issue. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the other thing is the fact that when these schools are established, they should come up as a package. It is important that we know that the people from these migrant groups live in manyattas . We can develop schools that are surrounded by modern manyattas, not the ones we destroy at the end of every season. We can improve the manyattas and locate them, by physical planning, so that they are around the schools. Therefore, the parents are within the school itself. Obviously, security is important. Cultural activities of the communities are also important. So, in this package of a boarding school, we could have a mosque or a church around the area so that these facilities are complete so that the children in these areas can go to school. It is important that there is a catchment area for children who are currently missing education because of the infrastructure that is not there. It is important that Sen. Halima has brought this Motion here. Not only do we ask that it be done, but we have to say exactly how it should be done. There is no doubt about the need to establish these schools. But how they should The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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