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    "content": "My suggestion would be that, to start with, we should have at least one school in every ward in the Republic of Kenya that is focusing on training of children with disability, where they get their early childhood, primary and secondary education within the same institution. There must be an institution of excellence in the 1,450 wards in this Republic that is focused on taking care of children who have disability. In many instances, because of cultural behaviors, many people who have children who have certain disabilities are stigmatized by society. They feel like they should not have got those children. Sometimes they hide them. We have seen cases on television where someone is chaining their child on a wall. When you ask them, they tell you: “There is no way I would have been able to let them free because they would go on a mission of self destruction.” There are a lot of dehumanizing acts that we have seen against persons with disabilities. Therefore, the state must step in. The best way to do it is by legislation. That is why we should further this amendment either in the Education Act or in the Persons with Disabilities Act so that we make it mandatory. This Constitution says that some of those rights must be realized progressively especially the socio-economic rights to education, health and so forth. We must give ourselves a target that in five or ten years, we must have a school in every ward that is dedicated to persons with disability so that they have proper education, braille and other equipment that they may require so that they are able to carry forward their education. I support this amendment. I urge Sen. Njoroge to continue in the same spirit. He should approach the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights chaired by Sen. Amos Wako, of which I am a Member. Let us see how we can review the whole Act comprehensively so that the rights of persons with disability are achieved."
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