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"content": "should be able to promote the needs of the vulnerable people in the society who include the disabled persons. I know that there is a special fund for the youth and persons with disabilities but can you expect a person with disability to compete with the youth? The youths are proactive and young but people with disabilities cannot even move from their houses to go and look for this fund in the counties. There must be a way on how to reach people with disabilities and we can do this through county governments. We must commit them every quarter or every year the way the Bill has suggested. County governments should give us statistics of people with disabilities, their activities and what they are doing. They should also tell us if they have established a school within their counties. I do not see ourselves moving forward if the people with disabilities are denied the right to education. The Constitution is clear; everybody has a right to education without any discrimination. That is one issue we need to work on. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have talked about education, employment, facilitation, wheelchairs, lifts and even beds. The people with disabilities also have families. You can imagine a person with disability going to a hospital to give birth and maybe, when they get there, they give birth on the floor because they cannot climb that bed. This is a very big challenge to us, as leaders, and I think we need to do something as at yesterday to bring persons with disabilities on board. There is another---"
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