Milgo Alice Chepkorir

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• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: There is a huge gap. There is need to bridge it because daycare centres prepare children for school. Well established daycare centres have regular schedule of activities like music, play activities, funfests, napping sessions--- view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you may save me from the noise. view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: Where we have activities that attract young children, this plays an important role in intellectual and developmental growth which will go a long way in shaping their behaviour. A study that was conducted in 1,300 United States of America (USA) health institutes found that children who attended daycare centres, particularly high quality daycare centres, will later on in their teens be better achievers and they will have a high cognitive level. Furthermore, they will have a strong reading command in addition to having high mathematical skills as compared to those with homebased care. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is, indeed, proof ... view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: On a light touch, it is a mutiny against me because they are from my tribe. This research shows that children taken to high quality daycare centres had a higher command of communication or mathematical skills. In the future, it was proof that high quality daycare centres lay a firm foundation for future learning and better achievement. Daycare centres prepare children for smooth transition to other education levels in the future apart from assisting them to adjust to school life. Daycare centres go a long way in assisting children to socialize better in life and to become better communicators. It ... view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: normally affect young children when they go to school like ringworms and respiratory diseases such as colds, and many other diseases. In most cases, children who join daycare centres develop resistance. When they join the mainstream school, they are very strong. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is in daycare centres where children access healthier foods. We have been speaking to issues of school feeding programmes. We were looking at ECDE centres in the Standing Committee on Education. In a brief, we will propose to the counties, some standardized form of feeding programmes. In our budget proposals today in the Standing Committee ... view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, recent mapping in terms of daycare centres established that there are about 2,700 informal daycare centres in Nairobi alone in informal settlements such as Kibera, Kawangware and other slums. In these areas, many of the children that go to these daycare centres are majorly from single parents who are working and cannot afford house helps. In the recent past, there were stringent labour laws against people who do not treat their house helps properly. Therefore, the single parents look for alternatives to ensure that they leave their children, so that they can do some jobs to earn ... view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, this is the reason I was prompted to propose that the Department of Basic Education comes up with a policy to regulate these centres. In addition to that, we have the county governments setting aside 10 per cent of their budget to ensure that they put up these centres. The new curriculum left out the daycare centres yet they lay a firm foundation for education without which, this will affect the children. Most of them may not get or have a firm grip in the future as they join the mainstream schools. Madam Temporary Speaker, Article 53 ... view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I thank my colleagues for taking interest in this Motion and putting a lot of information into it. They have also shown that this is an important Motion. I thank Senators who have spoken to this Motion starting from Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve who seconded the Motion and brought out the fact that daycare centers should be put in place to ensure we bring on board all children left out by the 2-6-3-3 system of education. In this case I am speaking to issues of 100 per cent transition. This reminded me of Sustainable Development Goals ... view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: Sen. Nyamunga has brought out the issue of the mental stress that women have because they are homemakers. As she was speaking on the issues that cause stress on women, one is because they lack people to leave their children with or are worried that the house helps are not the best. It reminded me that the many mental health issues we are witnessing in the country right now may be as a result of this. We realize that most of the homemakers are women and are also providers to the families. If they were to be provided with quality ... view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: Sen. Cherargei and Sen. Nyamunga have spoken to issues of lack of implementation. Although you have told us that in the Standing Orders each Committee or Member has the right to approach the right department in the Ministries, but it is still a major challenge to various Bills and Motions we bring to this House. Looking at the Articles of the Constitution 2010, many areas have not been implemented. The issue of gender disparity would have been achieved if the Constitution would have been implemented. Sen. Cherargei spoke to issues of the curriculum and the need to engage the KICD ... view