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    "id": 961075,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, there is a research I had looked at a while ago that I would like to quote from that talks about a rights-based approach because that is what we are dealing with. This is a paper by the Southern Africa Federation of the Disabled (SAFOD). According to the Paper, a rights-based approach to disability and development is about leveling the playing field so that people with disabilities can access jobs, education, health and other services. A rights-based approach is about the removal of physical and social barriers, just as I have explained using KICC and Parliament Buildings. It is about attitude adjustment for policy makers, employers, teachers, healthcare professionals and even family members. A rights-based approach is about ensuring universal design, accessible technology and coordinated public programmes and services. The approach requires government to provide the resources necessary to implement these goals and to enforce penalties for those who refuse to cooperate. Without legislators like Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve in this House and the National Assembly, it is very easy for other legislators to ignore or not to think about such interventions because that is not what comes at the top of their mind. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am glad that with partners in Nairobi City County, I have been able to see beyond what would be pity to you when it comes to providing facilities for PWDs. As I said before in this House, I am glad that with the help of the President and the First Lady, we donated a bus to one of the greatest champions. She happens to be a sister to a Senator from Kajiado and runs a programme for children. The bus will facilitate her to go around the slums of Nairobi to pick up children and take them to a centre where certain support can make them go back to normal Due to poverty in many parts around this City, many parents, especially mothers, do laundry for other people and get Kshs150 per day. However, they do not have people to take care of their children. What they do is to lock up those children in their houses in the slums. Those children are kept almost like goats in a pen for years. That is stifling the ability of such a mother to provide for that child and for that child to get a better education. That is creation of vicious circle of poverty. We have helped a few and we hope that we will do more. It is clear that entry to the job market is delayed for PWDs because of their education process. I happened to have gone to a primary school where there is a unit for the deaf. They take many years to finish than they should. That means that once they finish high school and higher levels of learning, they enter the job market possibly at the age of 30, 32 or 33 years and yet others are out in the job market at the age of 23 or 24 years. Therefore, it follows that there should be an extension at the other end of the spectrum for them to have a delayed retirement age."
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