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    "id": 874439,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "NOW THEREFORE the Senate calls upon the coordinated effort of the National Government through the Ministry of Education, and the County Governments through the Council of Governors to develop policy that would ensure inclusiveness of special needs learners in school clubs in public schools beginning at the Early Childhood Development (ECD) level up to and including Secondary School level. Madam Temporary Speaker, when I was thinking of this Motion, I was looking at the role that education plays in an education system. Education is an ongoing process and it helps us impact skills, knowledge, right perceptions and attitudes to learners. In a school environment, the school does this through many ways. School clubs have a big role to play in the education sector. It is in the school clubs that it is possible to inculcate the right attitudes you want in our learners and the right perception. This is so that by the time our learners transit out of school, they have the right mind, they are all round and they are able to drive our nation politically, socially and economically to the level that is desirable. In a school environment, you will find that schools have different clubs like Chinese Club, Engineering Club, Leadership Club, Home Science Clubs et cetera . The essence of these clubs is to ensure that learners have a feel of what it is like to be in the outside world. Clubs help to prepare our learners so that they are all round. The essence of education is to come up with an all-round person. Learning takes place in a school environment. Learning that takes place in the school environment helps learners to acquire the right skills, attitudes and mind that will help the nation later on. School clubs are, therefore, possible ways in which schools can help the learners get the right perspective. When you look at the issue of disability, most of the time people talk about inclusivity and awareness. There are so many issues surrounding the issue of disability, lack of awareness et cetera . When you are talking of inclusivity of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs), it will be good for it to start in a school environment. When you talk of inclusion of PwDs, it will be good for it to start in a school environment. If learners in all public schools are exposed to issues of disability and what it is like to be disabled, they will have the right mind and perspective of PwDs. To change learners or to impact the right perspective, we have to start doing so when they are young. The United Nations (UN) convention on the rights of the persons with disability says that a child is any human being below 18 years. When we impart the right information in our children at an early age, it will be possible for them to include PwDs when they transit to the world of work and become managers, because they will have the right perspective of what it is like to be disabled. School clubs are important avenues of making learners know that disability is not inability, and that it is not contagious. They will also know that one can make economic impact in the society even with a disability. When schools train children at an early age 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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