Milgo Alice Chepkorir

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• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko, talked about the vulnerability of children and the issue of a just society was brought up. This is where we ensure we take care of children, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: provide the right education, right materials, ensure that we ascertain that children are living in good environments and we are living in areas where everybody has an equal footing. All these speakers have spoken to the issue of the welfare of the teachers who are supposed to work in these institutions. We have had a challenge and, in many cases, the welfare of ECDE teachers has not been considered. Therefore, there has been a lot of frustration which impacts negatively on the young children. Sen. Shiyonga talked of standardization. If the Basic Education Department will develop this policy, it is ... view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: the country. By so doing, we will ensure our children have a firm foundation when they start schooling. This is the entry point and it is unfortunate. Sen. Kang’ata spoke about the challenges that are still in Competency Based Curriculum (CBC), the 2-6-3-3 system of education. You can see it has even left out this play group. That is why I was saying earlier that when we are interrogating counties with my Committee, we did realize that enrolment in ECDE centres has gone down because this group was left out by this. Therefore, there is a huge gap that this ... view
• 17 Feb 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support this Statement. The Petition came to our Committee. We handled it and expected that payment would be done. It is quite unfortunate that to date, we are still talking about the same issue. view
• 17 Feb 2021 in Senate: Councilors used to earn little amount of money during those days and they worked under poor conditions. Many of them have passed on while waiting to be compensated. In labour laws, it is expected that every worker, after having completed their service, gets pension so that they are deemed to have benefited from the work they did. view
• 17 Feb 2021 in Senate: I am sure my Committee on Labour and Social Welfare will still go back and look at the issue. I am sure this time around, we shall bring it to conclusion. view
• 17 Feb 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to also weigh in on this Statement. Whilst supporting Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve’s Statement, I want to say that COVID-19 actually brought a lot of challenges. In the recent past, we learnt that for over seven months, some of the school going kids even became mothers. Some of them are still at home. The Government is still trying to find a way of actually ensuring that these kids are brought back to school. Many of the parents lost jobs. Many of the parents have relocated. I think up to now, they ... view
• 17 Feb 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to support this Bill by Sen. (Dr.) Zani. I want to thank her for coming up with this important Bill; a Bill that will go a long way to help the people of this country. This amendment is in time because of the fact that it was first enacted before the promulgation of the 2010 Constitution, which ensured that there were counties whose primary function is to manage cooperative societies. Cooperative societies play a very important role in enhancing the borrowing power of people. It also encourages people to gain ... view
• 17 Feb 2021 in Senate: In addition, the National Government will play a very important role in enacting policies. Policies that will guide and regulate the development of the cooperative societies. The county governments, which is the second level of management, will play a very important role in ensuring that they provide information desks for cooperative societies where ideas can be shared based on the best practices for cooperative societies. Again, it is in counties where we will have proper management. It is at the county level where the management in charge of cooperative societies will be able to reach out to the various cooperative ... view
• 17 Feb 2021 in Senate: Otherwise, this is a very important Bill. I support it. I hope it will see the light of day so that cooperative societies can work for the betterment of people of this country. view