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    "content": "kind of people. However, the cash transfers are sometimes abused. The people who are supposed to benefit from the cash transfers do not because the money goes to the other normal individuals who have no disability whatsoever but you will hear people saying they have taken care of many people with disabilities. We need to take care and ensure that the money meant for those people goes for the kinds of services that are required for them. I have talked about job placements. There are those who may not be physically disabled to the extent that they cannot go to jobs. I have seen some of the people who are visually impaired and deaf. If such people use their brain, they are the most brilliant people. Some of them have gone up to the level of doing PhDs. Some of them are resource persons in some areas of science and technology, something that some of the normal people are unable to achieve. Therefore, we must preserve such kinds of people and give them proper jobs where they can withstand. Secondly there are the legal advisory services that are required for such people. Their rights are abused and they have no recourse to legal services. How do you integrate? The only way a county or a national government will be able to provide legal services is by knowing the number of people who are disabled in the nation or within a county. Then, they need to know the types of disabilities that may require particularly the legal services when their privileges and rights are trampled upon. It is important that we create total awareness for everybody who has these issues at hand. The PWDs have numerous problems and difficulties. As a medical doctor, I know that majority of them do not want to disclose because they are suspicious of anybody whom they do not understand and know. So, they will not disclose to you the full circle of problems that they go through. We need to embrace them and bring them on board. One way of bringing them on board is by recognising that they exist. The only way to know that they exist is to look for them and get to where they are hidden in homes. The only people who can do that are the people at the grassroots such as the chiefs, assistant chiefs, and village elders. Every time we conduct a census, like we are likely to do next year, let us seize that opportunity and incorporate the census for the PWDs. That will give us a ground survey; the level at which we are able to know who among us have disabilities. I dare say that one of the surveys in the census that we are going to carry out in 2019 should be that element. How many people within a given area are PWDs? That will give us the national figure and we will then segregate that figure to the county level. Thereafter, whatever services we offer will be commensurate with the number of people who are there. Some may need schools, others hospital attention, others legal services, while others may need to attend to their normal needs of life. As a society, we must be in a position to be conscious and know whom we are treating. Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank the Mover of this Motion, Sen. Khaniri, for being conscious of PWDs because more often than not, they are ignored, they are not embraced, their rights are trampled upon and they are never known. Even when they have property, they never get those properties. Madam Temporary Speaker, I can see that time is running out. I would have contributed more on a much more expansive manner. But suffice it to say, this Motion is The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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