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    "id": 698323,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/698323/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Munene",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2652,
        "legal_name": "Mary Wambui Munene",
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    "content": "I know nursery schools are the foundation of young children. When children go to nursery schools, they need to pray and have all the facilities. These days, it is very hard for mothers and fathers to be with their children at home. My worry is that so many nursery schools are being taken over by private people. The reason why parents take their children to nursery schools next to primary schools is because they are secure. When a child in primary school goes to school, he or she will go with his or her brother or sister. Children are faced with problems such as rape. Even if we involve the county governments, we need to think about the child. The county governments are supposed to pay the nursery school teachers. In my place, there are ECDE training schools but, sometimes, only two people go there to be trained. The reason why there is no money is because those teachers are treated like people who do not know what they doing. Some go there because they do not have any other job. When a child is three or four years old, that child needs to know how to play, talk and write his or her name. The Senate has done a very good job to bring this Bill here. We need to think of how we are going to help those teachers so that, when they teach our children, they feel they are wanted like the other teachers. It is good for TSC to employ those teachers and give them skills so that when they teach our children, they feel proud. In the villages where we come from, a nursery school teacher is paid Kshs2,000 or Kshs3,000. Is that the teacher you think will take care of your children? Some people are poor and they cannot take their children to private nursery schools. When such children go to Standard One, the child who came from a private nursery school and the one who came from a public primary school have a lot of differences. That is where there is a challenge. We need to support this Bill and also ask our county governments to pay the teachers well and to give them all the facilities that are needed to teach the children. They lack the facilities. That is the reason why you can see when children become big, they have problems. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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