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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Statement. It was very painful and touching when it was reported in the news that Kajiado County was one of the affected counties. This is especially because it was reported that Mashuru Division in Oloitokitok, where I come from, was one of the worst hit areas. It was reported that out of the over 200 students who missed their exams in Kajiado County, 75 per cent were girls, because there were young men who did not also turn up to do their examinations. We, therefore, had a total of about 199 girls and another 55 boys who missed these examinations and who were absent during the day of the examination. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must go to the root cause of this problem. In Kajiado County, you cannot talk about school dropouts without talking about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). These two issues go hand in hand and if we do not handle issues that our anti-FGM campaigns raise, then we are going to be affected just as much as the other counties. We must also talk about the issue of poverty. There is a report that indicates that most of the girls who are dropping out are from very poor families. The report even shows that the poverty index affects this particular aspect in society. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we carried out a mentorship program and an Alternative Rite of Passage (ARP) between 23rd and 25th of August, 2018, in Mashuru Sub County, which is one of the affected sub counties. During this exercise, we took a total of 166 girls and 48 boys through guidance and counselling. The reason this program had both girls and boys is because we believe that the boy is also the sister’s keeper. If the boys were also taught that they should not be involved in teenage pregnancies, then they can also help to shape up the society. We should, therefore, not leave out the boys in these programmes, but also talk about the boy child when discussing some of these programmes. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, during the sessions on alternative rite of passage and mentorship programmes, we called in role models, first ladies and County ARP champions to talk to them. One of the resolutions we made is that we needed to rescue The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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