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    "id": 951367,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui West, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Edith Nyenze",
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        "legal_name": "Edith Nyenze",
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    "content": "start or the first impression the children get about school and learning. So, it should not be treated lightly like it is done in some cases. You find, especially in rural areas, few parents coming up with arrangements to start ECD schools and then get teachers from anywhere who have not even been trained and employ them. They put such delicate and fragile children in wanting structures. As I said, this is a transition from home and the first impression is very important. Those delicate children require quality education. Meals should also be considered. The Government should put in place measures to ensure that there are meals even in the arrangement of coming up with education facilities. Playing grounds should also be adequate. There should be space to play because at this age, they are used to jumping and shouting. So, they require safe and spacious grounds for them to play and continue growing up in an educational set up. I am supporting this Bill on early childhood education because it is catering for some of those things. I have also noticed that it is taking into consideration children who are born with disabilities. This has been wanting, especially for children who are born with disabilities. We do not have institutions and classes. Such children do not enjoy their right to education because they stay with their parents. Some parents even hide them because they become a bother to them. This Bill takes into consideration children who are born with disability. For such children, they require quality education, which can only be offered by teachers who have quality education; not teachers who are demotivated. Some teachers have not been absorbed by the county governments. They are employed by parents, who give them very little money. Sometimes, the teachers go without pay and yet, those are the teachers who take care of such delicate children. This would affect their education."
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