Mary Yiane Senata

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• 22 Jul 2021 in Senate: On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is the former Senate Majority Leader in order to say that Sen. Olekina was dressed like a Maasai woman when he was dressed in a real Maasai man’s attire? Is Sen. Murkomen challenging the Maasai traditional dressing that we do not differentiate men’s clothing from a women’s clothing? view
• 22 Jul 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support this amendment to the Basic Education Act which seeks to introduce feeding program to the Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) children. This amendment will go a long way in improving performance in our schools. When these young children are given food, something in between their learning time, they will have good concentration on whatever they are going to be learning. view
• 22 Jul 2021 in Senate: Hence this will go a long way in improving their performance. This feeding program will not only improve performance but also quality of education. These children will learn and observe their time. They will be attentive even to whatever is going to be taught in those classes. view
• 22 Jul 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, this aspect of feeding program, many of us when we were in our primary schools we used to long for the lunch hour so that you can be given a packet of milk. That could motivate many of us to attend school. This feeding program will also reduce absenteeism. Many of our children most of the time even pretend not to be feeling well because they are hungry and they will be bored in school. Feeding program will also improve attendance in school and it will reduce absenteeism. view
• 22 Jul 2021 in Senate: The feeding program will also help those parents who instead of cooking lunch for their children and waiting in their houses to attend to these children, they will be doing other farm and economic activities. Therefore, this will release those housewives who will be attending to other things; they will get extra time for other economic activities. view
• 22 Jul 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the feeding program will also help as many have said, our small scale farmers who are dairy farmers and livestock keepers. They will get market for their milk. This will go a long way in helping our farmers to earn a living through selling this milk to our different learning institutions. view
• 22 Jul 2021 in Senate: Finally, feeding program will also help our children in terms of improving their health status. Many of our children especially from urban areas who have no three meals in day, they will have at least a small packet of milk in school which will improve their health. Therefore, this is a timely amendment to the Basic Education Act. I urge Members to pass this amendment. I rise to support the amendment to the Bill. I congratulate my sister for having thought of this very important amendment. view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Chairperson, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the Senate, today Wednesday, 14th July, 2021- Report of the Standing Committee on Health concerning the Community Health Service Bill, 2020 (Senate Bills No. 34 of 2020). view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a very timely Bill which seeks to align TVET institutions, establishment and management to the Constitution of Kenya 2010. In the Constitution, TVET has been devolved to county governments as a function. I am happy that we are discussing this Bill on a day that the world is celebrating the World Youth Skills Day. With very high unemployment rate, we need to rethink our institutions which offer skills in connection to the job market. We need to offer skills that are important to the job market. Now that you have given me a very short ... view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: need to give a budget that can help to build more facilities for TVET institutions. They also need to give bursaries to encourage those youths interested in joining these institutions. They also need to allocate a budget to the trainers in these institutions. Not only a budget for salaries, but also to develop terms of service and even have a pension and allowances, just like other tutors in institutions of higher learning. Madam Temporary Speaker, county governments in collaboration with the management of these TVET institutions, should develop a mechanism where they can market these institutions. County governments should offer ... view