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Prisons to become PSI Distance Learning centers - Minister
Wa, Feb. 12, Ghanadot/GNA - The Deputy
Upper West Regional Minister, Madam Winifred Asibi Bawa
Dy-Yakah, has said the days prisons were perceived as places
of punishment had become a thing of the past as they had
been turned into places of acquisition of knowledge and
skills.
She said under the Presidential Special Initiative (PSI) on
Distance Learning prisons had become reformatory areas that
prisoners could use to acquire skills.
“It is better to learn skills as prisoners and be beneficial
to society on your release than to move about jobless", she
said.
Madam Dy-Yakah said this when she received reading materials
and equipment on Monday in Wa from the PSI on Distance
Learning Programme for the Wa Central Prisons.
The items included English and mathematics textbooks,
television sets and video compact discs, digital videodisc
players and lesson notes on Junior High and Senior High
schools.
The inmates would acquire skills in catering, block laying
and concreting, basic English and mathematics.
Madam Dy-Yakah said education was the bedrock of development
and that gains from the inmates of the prisons would help to
decrease the illiteracy rate in the country and urged the
inmates to take their training seriously to uplift their
image in society.
Madam Abena Agyakoma Kwarteng, National Coordinator of the
Presidential Special Initiative (PSI) on Distance Learning,
said government had identified the acquisition of skills as
one of the surest ways of sustaining the socio-political
stability of the nation.
She said the PSI on Distance Learning had planned an open
schooling in Technical and Vocational Education and Training
(TVET) to attain the target of “Education for All".
Madam Kwarteng said the programme was being carried out with
support from the University of Education, Winneba, the
Commonwealth of Learning and the Regional Training and
Research Institute for Open and Distance Learning (RETRIDAL),
a West African regional grouping of distance education
providers.
GNA
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