Milgo Alice Chepkorir

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• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: people refer to Members of Parliament and governors and those women are taken as just women representatives. When people are being introduced, they become secondary women. Out of that 70, maybe they can still retain the 47 women. What we should be speaking to as a Senate is to have Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) appointed from Parliament so that we shall have some Senators joining ministerial positions as well. Being a Senator empowers any Senator to have representation, speak to issues of legislation as well as oversight. Madam Temporary Speaker, we should be speaking and fighting for oversight funding and not ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to second this Motion. It is a very important Motion affecting a very important section of people in this country, PWD. The Motion on operationalization of Section 46 of the Basic Education Act, 2013 mandates county education boards to provide for EARCs. It is an important Motion because such centres will play a critical role of bringing children with disabilities on board. The Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE) plays an important role in ensuring that special needs teachers are trained. However, nobody has talked about going to the local centres and ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in Senate: 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
• 5 Nov 2020 in Senate: those schools, they will not get the right education. That is because they will not be able to learn because of the fact that they may not get facilities, teachers and even the conditions of such schools may not be fit for them. EARCs will play a very important role to ensure that different types of disabilities are placed in the right centre so that they benefit from education. EARCs will play an important role in advising the county education boards to setup a matrix for assessment of existing EARCs to ensure that they provide the right kind of education ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in Senate: In addition, the matrix that shall be set up by the county education boards shall assist the counties to set up the specialized schools. We have been speaking to issues of Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) across the counties. We have been strengthening the issues of setting up specialized centres in the various counties to ensure that we provide an all-inclusive education. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, in the course of our interrogation, we did find that when County Executive Committee Members (CECs) go to establish schools, they simply put up a centre and say it is a special needs centre. We even interrogated to the extent of finding out the type of materials that are placed in those particular schools. We got a surprise that those children actually do not receive the right kind of education. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in Senate: These EARCs shall play an important role in placement, intervention and special needs so that these children achieve their education just like the normal children. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, as I said earlier, when you take children with disabilities to any special school, what happens is that, at the end of the period, they should have been able to learn and read. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in Senate: This same information shall not only play an important role in establishing the centres. The same information that shall be obtained in EARCs will also play an important role in identifying the right kind of teachers. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, as the Chairperson of the Committee on Education, I have established the fact that children with disabilities vary. We have those that are blind, have hearing challenges, visual challenges and even bipolar cases. view