Sophia Abdi Noor

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this very important and special report, which touches my heart. I have been in the heart of women empowerment for many years, and I have gone to CSW many times. My sisters who went to the CSW this time round, I want to congratulate you. You represented us well. Congratulations. This Report itself shows that you have done a marvelous job in representing us. Our Government must be serious in empowering women in this country. That is what we are asking. Yes, they have done something; ... view
• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this Motion. I want to congratulate, Hon. Naisula for bringing this Report. It is timely and as you know EAC is an organ whose objective among others is to develop policies and programmes that can be shared widely across all the partner states. Among them is cooperation, sharing of information and sharing of research that has been done and many other things. That is part of the objectives of the EAC. Meteorological services are very important. If you get the right information at the right time, ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance. I feel the Petitions presented today are very crucial and important. I want to support the Petition by the Member for Laikipia North. I want to condemn the criminals who have put security matters into their hands and killed innocent Kenyans, looted their properties and harassed this country. Security has been a very big problem to this country; it is like a cancer. If the people responsible for national security put their heads together and do proper planning, mapping and developing a strategy of dealing with the ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: their areas. Those are the people the NPSC should reward. The NPSC recruited Kenya Police Reservists in my constituency, but they have not trained them. They have not given them anything. The bandits know the people who have been recruited. The recruits are being harassed day in, day out. The people who have been recruited should be trained and given appropriate equipment so that they can protect our people. You do not just recruit people and leave them hanging to become easy targets for insecurity. Finally, there are schools which have been closed down all over the country because of ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to contribute to this Motion again. As you know, persons with disability are our children and our relatives and it is very important that we take care of them. As a nation, we know the situation and the status that they are living in. The truth of the matter is that the special education schools that we have currently do not have adequate resources and enough teachers who are trained specifically for the disabled. We know that the schools that are there are public schools. I come from Garissa County and it ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, it is important that we support this Motion. The Departmental Committee on Education and Research must critically look at how much is given to persons with disability in this country… The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to add my voice in support of this Motion. It is a Motion that is familiar to me. I have worked in this area for many years. I am a founder and CEO of an NGO called Womankind Kenya, which did a lot in the areas of reproductive health. I have been running an integrated programme. I have met physically with women and girls who suffer vesico-vaginal fistula. I have counseled, sat and ate with women who are despised by their communities, who do not feel like part of the community because ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: that programme. They went out of their way to conduct health education to tell people the causes of fistula. I have been doing many programmes on female genital mutilation and the effects of early child marriages, which are some of the factors that contribute to fistula. As a nation, when we have 6 million of our women and girls affected by fistula in one way or another, we cannot take it for granted. It is a big population. It is a group we cannot just ignore. The Constitution is very clear on the provision of healthcare. It is compulsory free ... view
• 8 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute to this very important Motion. I want to take this chance to congratulate my sister for bringing this very important Motion. view
• 8 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Disability is not inability. From the backgrounds that we come from, we know what happens to children with special needs. There are places where children are hidden. In other places, they are given up for sacrifice when they are born. We have come a long way. The Motion says that there is lack of policy implementation framework. I agree totally with that. There is a serious gap in implementation of policies and laws that we have in this country. It is important for the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to take this Motion very seriously and put in place ... view