Recreational facilities and Rehabilitation in the prisons.
Promoting
and
facilitating sporting activities
to inmates did not only prove
to be part of rehabilitation
but had the prisoners be
engaged in the sporting
activities like soccer which
removes boredom associated
with
incarceration
and
reduce possibilities of one
escaping from the prison. In
this picture from the ZACRO
morgue - the team sponsored
by ZACRO showcasing C
Mudehwe (keeling left) - the
programs manager and B
Makuvarara
(standing
akimbo) – the organization’s
vice president before playing
Mazowe prison was committed to promote soccer in the prisons. However this year the team could not
perform as expected owing to lack of resources but the organization managed to donate as many balls to
the penal institutions for the prisoners to play and whi8le up time while incarcerated while others resorted
to take up sporting seriously and rely on this upon release from the prisons.
Half Way House Project – Design and 2008 programming activities:
The organization carried out the halfway house
Objectives of the Half Way House Project
project which basically involved provision of a
Basically the half way house offered ex-offenders
temporary accommodation at its headquarters
a safe home and facilitated: rehabilitation.
in Harare which was meant to house exrestoration and humanitarian services to the target
offenders. During the period under review 33
group.
ex-offenders passed through the half way
home. They were seeking various help.
Despite limited resources the organization
assured that these ex-offenders - many of them who have just been released from prison were
helped. In particular ZACRO helped them by paying attention to their individual needs which
included:
• Released inmates with no accommodation and nowhere to go,
• Ex-inmates who needed to be reunited with their families or their communities
who may have been victims of offending behavior.
• It was also used for released inmates requiring overnight accommodation in
transit to their homes while ZACRO also
• Rendered relevant humanitarian assistance to the target group under the half way
home project.
Half way House Vision: The Half way home was there to see ex-inmates have a safe home and
see them rehabilitated with the objective to change behavior towards re offending.
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