Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 401 to 410 of 1925.

• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to also weigh in on this important topic on ECDE. The country has gone through tremendous transformation in the educational sector. I had the privilege of presiding over some of these transformations during my career and tenure as the Minister for Education. One of the fundamental rights that have been enshrined in Article 53 of our Constitution, 2010, is the right to everything, like the right to health and everything else. Article 53(1) is specifically dedicated to children. It states that children have a right to education, nutrition, shelter, healthcare ... view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: As I said earlier on, we need to be extremely careful in this country because the growth of a child is exponential in the first few months and years. By the time a child gets to five years, the brain growth is exponential. The children are able to pick up the traits and characteristic of the parents and subsequently the daycare centres. The nation should make every single effort to ensure that the transition is smooth without any hitch. view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: The 2-6-3-3-3 curriculum is a very important after having had the 8-4-4 system for more than 32 years. We are in a new system that requires new approaches, training and refreshment, so that people do not feed wrong information to our children at a tender age. Therefore, in approaching the subject of day care centres, the county governments must take into account basically, and the foremost infrastructure. Once infrastructure is taken care of, they must be in a position to include in that infrastructure the kind of graphics that appear on the walls of that institution need to be child ... view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: county governments are conceiving the idea of creating infrastructure, what I have stated must be fundamental. view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the second fundamental thing in that infrastructure should be the provision of plenty of water, so that they are kept clean. We are talking about children whose main preoccupation in the bulk of the time that they are in the school or daycare centres is playing. They must provide the playing materials, which are child friendly, so that the children can play well and absorb a lot of the learning. Most of learning takes place in children by creating a relationship between them and the toys they are given. For instance, if you give a child a ... view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: The surrounding of the daycares must be such that any danger is removed, such as pit holes that may be in the school. Any sharp objects should be removed from the school. Most importantly, children must be provided with meals in the daycare centres. For growth to occur, children must be provided with a balanced diet. For some children, the balanced food that they will receive in the daycare centres may be the only time they get a balanced meal if their home is poverty-stricken. view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: The third element that the daycare centers should have is health workers who can check the milestones of the children at the centres. The purpose of checking milestones is to assess whether the children are growing normally or retarded in growth. The milestone check should confirm whether a child is able to absorb the environment and imbibe what is required for him or her to hear and vocalize. view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: Finally, there should be playground where the children at the daycare centres will run around and play. It is normal for children to muddy themselves, while playing so long as they bath in time to go home clean. During the playtimes on the playground, the health worker can check the children for their immunization profile to see if they have received immunization on time. Immunization in the early months and years of life can help prevent deadly diseases to the young population of this nature. view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: The county governments have a major responsibility of nurturing and bringing up a population of Kenyans, who will be the future leaders of this nation. Our investments should, therefore, be at this level. Whenever, I have gone round some of the most beautiful Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) centres that have been built by the county governments, they have been grabbed by the national Government for purposes of primary education. That is why some of us were tempted to say that the level of education at the county level should go up to the primary level, so the necessary ... view
• 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: When I was the Minister for Education, I am aware that the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) came up with a curriculum for the early childhood education. We also did a curriculum for the early primary, secondary and tertiary education. I, therefore, know what the curricula portend for the future generations. The curriculum development must be culturally and socially attuned to the cluster of children that you are dealing with. That is when they come into close contact with the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can ... view