Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 824302,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/824302/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 309,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Samburu West, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Naisula Lesuuda",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13122,
        "legal_name": "Naisula Lesuuda",
        "slug": "naisula-lesuuda"
    },
    "content": "This year’s theme was ‘Challenges and Opportunities in Achieving Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Rural Women and Girls’ and a review theme which was ‘Participation in and access of women to the media and information and communications technology (ICT) and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women.’ One of the key things that we realised, and it has been mentioned by the Mover, is that there is nothing called rural girls or rural women. It can only be women and girls who live in rural areas. Most of us come from these areas. It is just that the cities bring us together for various reasons, but the challenges that our women and girls face in rural areas are enormous. We all know them. From an early age, we know they are the ones who fetch water and look for firewood yet compete with boys in their schools. Girls are expected to do the same exams with boys, while girls and women continue to do various chores at home. We must think and we were all meant to think of how to make the work of girls and women in the rural areas burden less. It is important for us, as a country, to look at issues to do with access to clean water at the nearest point. It is important for us to think how to make sure that our girls and women can access water at the nearest point. Water has an impact on education. The distance the girls walk to fetch water and still catch up with the others in school, and are expected to perform well in exams, is something that we need to think through as one of the key challenges that our girls and women go through in the rural areas. The second thing is that we still have the challenges of early marriages and FGM in most counties. Even though we have laws, they continue to be deeply-rooted culture that we have to think how to bring everybody on board. One of the key things that came out in the conference, which is something we have been discussing, is to bring men on board on issues to do with The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}