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    "id": 443690,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "I have worked a lot in this sector on mainstreaming what we call cross cutting issues on women, youth, persons with disabilities and children. At one time I was called, before I came to this House, to talk to persons with disability on the UN standard rules on persons with disabilities. When I went, there were persons who could not see but when I went to speak with them, beforehand I asked them to give me the materials that they were using. I was given the writing materials in Braille and for the first time I understood what it meant to be disabled because I was not able to read the material that they had written in Braille. I am not just saying it because it was really an awkward situation and it made me think that a lot of times we do things that are not sensitive to persons with disabilities as persons who are able bodied. I have worked a lot in this area. The organization that I was the chief executive of before I came here, the CRADLE Children Foundation has brought a similar matter to the High Court that the hon. Member is seeking an amendment. It is the CRADLE Children Foundation versus the Nation Media Group. The court awarded orders in the High Court. The Nation Media Group has appealed where basically it was to ensure that there must be interpreters for sign language for persons with disabilities."
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