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    "id": 628399,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/628399/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 232,
        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
        "slug": "daniel-karaba"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for allowing me to contribute to this important and timely Bill. This Bill also touches on education because most of the people who are affected are mainly young children aged 5 to 18 years who require a lot of attention. We have some institutions for persons with disabilities in my county. We have the Kirinyaga School for the Deaf in Kerugoya and Kibirigwi School for the mentally challenged children. We also have a number of homes for people with disabilities spread all over the country. There are also such children who are integrated with normal students and are taught in the normal system. The Government seems to have given a deaf ear to these institutions. Children in some of these institutions live by the grace of God. Some of them have no special equipment to use. Sometimes they have to rely on charitable organisations, well wishers and churches, because the Government gives very little financial assistance. We should all support these institutions and the children who are enrolled there. Children with disabilities need to be identified from their homes because some parents do not declare that they have such children at home. Such parents do not want to be associated with them and, hence, neglect them. We should even come up with a law to compel the Government - through chiefs or the Nyumba Kumi Initiative - to identify children with disabilities and take them to special institutions. This is because not many parents like to be associated with such children. This Bill, therefore, should include persons with disabilities who have not been to these special institutions. Madam Temporary Speaker, some of these institutions are in a pathetic state. Some of them do not even have enough food for the children, since they depend on donations. They lack special equipment and facilities for the physically challenged. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
}