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    "id": 950955,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Dennitah Ghati",
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        "legal_name": "Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": "All along, we have been talking about children with disabilities and their access to schools. It is extremely difficult for a child with disability to go to school. In this country, you will realise that children with disabilities are usually the last to get into a classroom and the first to drop out of school because the infrastructure in our schools is not conducive for them. So, we cannot talk about harnessing and strengthening ECD centres without talking about children with disabilities. They have a problem in going to school. Infrastructure in ECD centres is not just about chairs and desks. It is about the road that leads to the compound of the school and the road that gets to the classroom. How does a child using a wheelchair, for example, get into the classrooms? We have seen county governments taking care of ECD. Most of our county governments are grappling to understand what ECD is all about. They have not known what it is all about. You realise that even the attention that ECD teachers receive from our county governments is wanting. It is extremely low. The ECD teachers are treated as second-class teachers. They are not usually capacitated. They are not even paid enough money to sustain themselves. We need to look at how much money an ECD teacher should be compensated with to bring up a child growing up in a school environment. The money that the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has been providing to make sure that infrastructure in schools is conducive should be targeted to building ECD classrooms. You have seen areas in Turkana or Nyatike where young children study under trees. That is completely unacceptable. We need to focus our attention to building the capacities of our ECD teachers, so that they can raise and train our children. The Cabinet Secretary needs to look at the ECD curriculum and make sure that that curriculum takes care of the needs of children with disabilities."
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