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    "id": 861479,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "around so the type of objects being left around may be injurious to the children in that surrounding. Therefore, the Bill goes to a great to define how these centres should be established. People must be careful about how they are established. When this center is established, there will be breaks for small refreshments and meals and, therefore, there must be water, clean toilets or otherwise, you create a place where you get all forms of diseases. Instead of children gaining in that association, the day care center will be sending diseases to their homes. I do not think we will make the parents happy. So, sanitation, public health, safety and the surroundings are critical in the management of these children. There is also another element that we must consider in this Bill; that these children must be culturally developed because they have been brought up in a particular culture. They must be nationally involved in terms of the language they are going to use. Remember we have said in the Bill that the best medium of instruction may obviously be the mother tongue. However, there are certain differences in the urban centers where we have multi-nationalities and therefore no one single language will fit in. I think in most of our day care centers, it will vary from station to station that we need to capture this element so that there is both the culture that develops around the surroundings in that area, the language that is important and the development itself. This Bill also seeks to harmonize curriculum development. That is why we should create time and energy to speak to the curriculum that should be taught in these ECD centres. We have worked alongside the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) and they have provided insights on how this curriculum will be developed, because this is the time children start vocalising various areas. They try to associate objects with what they are seeing and the names of those objects. They try to associate characters and the types of things they are seeing with those characters. They are trying to mentally differentiate between a grown-up person and a non-grown-up person. If I would say from the medical profession, the brain growth of a child and its potential occurs in the first six months. In fact, the head circumference attains its maturity at almost 80 per cent of the head circumference. If you see when a child is growing, the head grows faster than any other thing, to be able to accommodate the brain. Within the brain, you have the cells that would now start developing and associate memory: place and things that come and dangerous things that come. Therefore, the curriculum has taken into account these elements. Since this will be streamlined and connected with free primary education, one of the biggest headaches that we have today is what will happen to our current primary schools. This is because most of the ECD centres are in those places. If those ECD centres must be connected with the primary school, then the format and the area in which they are allocated must be clearly defined. Children like playing, that is their pleasure; they will always be very effective in playing. Therefore, you must provide a variety of toys and items for children to play with. That is the only way they enjoy early childhood learning. Do not go in for serious businesses, you must diversify their minds and create a favourable environment for them to say:“Yes, I think we have done the right thing and everything is well”. 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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