Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: Without reducing inequality, we will still be in the streets fighting ourselves. We must reduce that; it is the trigger. We, however, thank the Government this time because The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate. view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: it has said it wants to do a “bottom-up” approach. Therefore, if it is bottom-up, these are the issues to address and implement. As the Government addresses this, we should be able to get rid of this poverty within the shortest time possible. view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support. view
• 20 Jul 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to support the Bill that was brought forward by Sen. Crystal Asige. This is an important Bill as far as the Constitution of Kenya is concerned. The Persons with Disabilities Bill is unpacking Article 54 of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. I support this Bill because it is very important as far as our Bills of Rights are concerned and the rights of every Kenyan. This Bill is looking at the rights of people with disabilities with a view to realizing the Articles in the Constitution, both in the Bill of Rights ... view
• 20 Jul 2023 in Senate: We know that in our country PwDs have suffered at the family front, in the education sector and not being supported by the Government. The sad part is that they are not taken care of very much at the family level, firstly because of cultural beliefs that were there from time immemorial. Therefore, because of cultural beliefs, these people were left on their own and sometimes, only left at the mercy of their mothers because a mother cannot throw away a child no matter how the child was born. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other thing is that this is a ... view
• 20 Jul 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the rights of PwDs are, therefore, affected on several levels. They are hampered as far as education is concerned. So, they do not get education at the right time. We know that disability takes you back a few steps, but we must facilitate to ensure that everybody, according to the Constitution, is taken care of, that equality is ensured. I thank our sister for emphasizing in this in the Bill that equality is a right. We need to address all Kenyans equally, whatever their disability. Some of the things that are happening in the education sector are ... view
• 20 Jul 2023 in Senate: are taught Sign Language while in primary school from Class one, two, three, all our children in this country will sign. This is very important for integration purposes. It is very important so that when we say we want to integrate the children, then anybody can sign. I will come back to the story of the trainer. Sign language for every child is a very important and progressive step as far as our education is concerned. It is going to be very progressive because now that we are going to a Competency Based Curriculum (CBC), we want many things to ... view
• 20 Jul 2023 in Senate: Better still, we should have a programme for parents with those kinds of challenges to be trained. It is very important that if this is going to be a language we can communicate with these children from when they are young--- I am emphasizing this because it is then that they can acquire their own education, grow like other Kenyans and we can talk of equality that this Bill is talking about. Equality has to start from the beginning. We have to provide equal opportunities for them from the very beginning so that they change. The other equality that we ... view
• 20 Jul 2023 in Senate: Finally, the trainers including our primary school and Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) Teachers must be trained accordingly to take care of the young people with disabilities. We must have teachers trained in braille when they are at the teachers training institutions because integration is something that we will never avoid. If a parent has a child in Mandera where there is no other school, that child must go to school. It will be nice if the teachers know how to sign and use braille so that they can take care of those children. view
• 20 Jul 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, apart from the training, we need to start providing for those children. As we are all aware, a parent with a child who is disabled spends 50 per cent of the time with that one child and the rest 50 per cent of the time with the rest of the family. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate. view