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    "id": 976538,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": "Comparative to other Funds, we have direct Funds targeting specific groups like Uwezo Fund, Women Enterprise Fund and Youth Enterprise Development Fund. I can say that the youth fund is moribund. It is not helping our youth in the villages and I cannot remember the last time I saw a youth fund cheque trickling down to the youth that we represent in this House. The Youth Enterprise Development Fund has a lot to learn when it comes to the management of that money from one specific fund that is called the Women Enterprise Fund. That is why I started by saying that comparing the three funds, the most efficient one is actually the Women Enterprise Fund. Whatever language that we may use here and whatever amount of words that we may use and whether there is the issue of politics or otherwise, we have to say that both Uwezo Fund and Youth Enterprise Development Fund have a lot to learn from Women Enterprise Fund. This is because every month in Kiharu, we disburse not less than Kshss2.5 million to women groups across the constituency, something that hardly happens when it comes to Youth Enterprise Fund. However, I also know that we now have a new board of Youth Enterprise Development Fund. I know some of the people in the board like one Dr. Mambo Kagusia who is part of the current board. We believe they will rejuvenate the Youth Enterprise Development Fund so that it can catch up with what we are saying about Women Enterprise Fund. I also have a few points that we possibly may use in support of this Report and also, in the management of the funds that we have in the country. Number one, for a very long time, we have had our women in this country being left behind in all perspectives from education to business opportunities to employment. However, looking at the current census whose results we just released as a country recently, the space that we represent as male is becoming endangered. For that matter, in Kiharu, we will be launching this year something we call Kiharu Men Fund which is personally funded by me and my friends so that it can be a pacesetter. I have gone across my constituency and I can dare say that our men, fathers and grandfathers have grand ideas that need to be supported by the Government or any other organisation - like the one we will be creating soon; that is, the Kiharu Men Fund."
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