and timely was in place during the period under review which all applied to all programming activities by ZACRO during 2008 and outlined in this annual report. Prisons Visits Programming Prisons Visits Routes While there are 55 prisons including satellites in Zimbabwe - ZACRO was responsibly supposed to conduct prisons visits to all these penal institutions in pursuing its mission at national scale. The prisons visits were mainly meant to undertake assessments on needs of the target group as well as making follow ups to last visits done the previous year (2997). On the ground about 30 prison visits were conducted by the organization during 2008. In order to fully cover all the prisons, the program divided the prisons into two main regions – the Eastern and Western regions. The prisons in the Eastern region which were supposed to be covered by one group of the ZACRO secretariat staffand these included:Harare, Marondera Mutare,Chipinge\ Mutoko, Murewa Bindura, Mazowe, Banket, Chinhoyi, Hurungwe, Kariba. The other group was to cover the following prisons in the Western region Chivhu, Masvingo, Chiredzi, Kadoma, Kwekwe, Gweru, Shurugwi, Mberengwa, Zvishavane, Bulawayo, Gwanda and Hwange. Why More Prisons Visits in 2008? As outlined by Mr Charles Mudehwe, ZACRO programs manager – ZACRO members visited the prisons aiming at. conducting situational analysis of the prisons ion Zimbabwe, assessing plight of inmates. Implementing and following up on programs, meeting target group and marketing ZACRO 17