Skills Development InterventionsIn the pictures - Above are prisoners at Mazowe farm prison implementing the rabitry project after training. Below Chinhoyi prison inmates are busy mastering skills in bee keeping – a project sponsored by ZACRO in partnership with Environment Africa as part of rehabilitating offenders and empower them with technical skills. The skills development intervention has been a strategy which ZACRO had been engaged in over a long period of time. To undertake this there was need to put resources – mainly funds in place for the skills development. The only major worry was shortage of resources which relatively affected ZACRO towards offering project starter packs to inmates acquire technical skills. This was despite that skills development enabled the inmates and ex-offenders to be empowered with different skills in different trades and earn a living from this after incarceration. However the organization managed to set up micro projects like bee keeping at Chinhoyi prison, rabitry at Mazowe – a project which was further extended to Ridigita, Little kraal and Mutare farm prison. Impact: What ever limitations encountered towards assisting the inmates and ex-offenders to change their behavior and avoid re-offending behavior - the rehabilitation program attempted to address the offence behavior of offenders and the consequences of incarceration. Thus the program facilitated the following: • Helped individuals to clarify their attitudes and beliefs and influence positive behavior change; • Explore the offender's self image and enhance self-esteem, confidence, and self respect; • Facilitated the acquiring of social skills leading them to be assertive, flexible, manage conflict, anger and decision making and respond to peer pressure. Hence during the programming year ZACRO continued to acquire rabbits from Mazowe farm prison. This rabbitry 37