Awutu Camp Prison on income-generating drive
The Awutu Camp Prison is to embark on income-generating activities to support the running of the camp and also to develop the skills of the inmates.
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Consequently, the Officer in Charge (OIC) of the camp, CSP Eric Ainoo-Ansah, has appealed to management of the Blue Rose Ltd, an estate developer, to consider engaging some inmates of the camp as labourers at its construction sites.
The move, he said, would not only generate income, but would also serve as a training ground for those without skills.
Donation
CSP Ainoo-Ansah made the appeal when the company presented a quantity of items worth more than GH¢2,000 to the camp.
The items included rice, biscuits, soft drinks, toiletries, first-aid kit, wheel barrows and second hand clothes.
The camp, currently houses 138 male inmates.
Collaboration with Blue Rose Limited
He said the camp was privileged to be in close collaboration with the company.“Whenever we run short of essentials, we fall on them and they never hesitated,” he said
The Chief Executive Officer of Blue Rose Limited, Mr Eric Ebo Acquah, was happy to collaborate with the camp in the area of skills development, adding that, “this will serve as a training ground for inmates without skills to gain some level of skills so that when they come out, they will useful citizens”.
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He said the company would be excited to be part of the success story of inmates leaving the camp fully equipped with employable skills.
Touching on the presentation, he said it was part of the company’s social responsibility towards the less-privileged in the areas the company operate.
Addressing the inmates, Mr Acquah urged them to be change agents by the time they left the camp.
The Administrator of the camp, Chief Gabriel Nortey, who received the items, expressed the gratitude of management of the camp and appealed to others to emulate the example of Blue Rose Limited.