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    "id": 950986,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Changamwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omar Mwinyi",
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        "legal_name": "Omar Mwinyi Shimbwa",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for according me this opportunity to air my views and thoughts about this very important Motion. Honestly speaking, the first five years of a child are very important. This is the time when the brain is growing. Learning has begun. Attitudes are being formed and the overall growth of a child is also taking place. This important stage of life needs to be taken proper care of. If we do not take care of our children during these ages, we will definitely lose them. We will have the kind of school dropouts that we see around. We will also have children who always lead from behind. That does not augur very well for this country. Countries which have realised the importance of early childhood development education have paid a lot of attention to this stage. As Hon. Tong’i said, in some countries, lower primary school teachers and early childhood education teachers are better remunerated than primary and secondary school teachers. This shows that such countries know the importance of this stage in life. Early childhood development lays the educational foundation of children. If the foundation is not strong, we should not expect a lot in years to come. For effective learning to take place, we need a proper environment comprising of proper classrooms, proper playgrounds and proper care. If we leave early childhood development education to county governments, as it is right now, we will be exposing our children. Starting with recruitment, it is not done professionally. Perhaps, it is done based on who is related to who, unlike how it is done in primary and secondary schools. Again, this being a very important stage in life, it requires well trained personnel that understand the development of children, so that they can give them the necessary care and attention. Children who are exposed to a good learning environment definitely become good students. That is why it is recommended that schools sometimes become better than homes. If the environment of the school is better than the home, the child would definitely be interested in going to school. Going to schools that we have currently, you find that the home is better than the school. That is why children are not very keen on going to school. Teaching is also a passion. We need to make sure that those who are recruited to teach our young children are in love with the profession. They should also be well-exposed to the nature and needs of children during the formative stages of their lives, so that they can bring them up in an environment which can help them to develop into good students who can produce the results that Hon. Ali Wario talked about. We also need teachers who can identify the various nature of challenges that children undergo and facilitate learning among the children. Leaving this important task to county governments might jeopardise the progress and development of education in our country. 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."
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