Blue Rose partners Awutu Prison Camp
Blue Rose Ltd, an estate company, is to collaborate with the Awutu Prison Camp in the Central Region to offer skills development to inmates at the camp. The collaboration would focus on construction works at the company’s project sites.
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It would not only support the inmates with skills but also serve as a source of an internally generated fund to support what has been provided by the government for the upkeep of the inmates and the running of the camp.
Acquisition of skills
Inmates who already have skills in building and carpentry work would join other professionals in the company in their field of specialty, while those without any skills in the construction industry would be engaged in the digging of foundations, carrying of blocks, fetching of water, among others.
The Chief Executive Officer of Blue Rose Ltd, Mr Eric Ebo Acquah, announced that when his company presented items worth more than GH¢2,000 to the inmates at the camp.
Blue Rose collaboration
The collaboration was at the instance of the Officer In Charge (OIC) of the prison, CSP Eric Ainoo-Ansah, who appealed to the company to help the camp generate internal income by engaging some of the inmates to work at its construction sites.
The OIC was of the view that aside the income that such a collaboration would bring to the prison, it would also be an avenue to provide skills training for the inmates.
He was happy that Blue Rose was one of the loyal companies in the country that had virtually adopted the camp.
Mr Acquah said the collaboration would help those without any skills to also acquire some skills so that by the time they were released, they would become useful citizens.
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“Blue Rose would be excited to be part of the success story of reforming inmates at the camp, leaving the prisons fully equipped with employable skills,” he said.
Items donated
He explained that the donation, which included bags of rice, biscuits, soft drinks, toiletries, wheel barrows, second-hand clothes and first-aid kits, was part of the company’s social responsibility towards the less privileged in the area the company operated.
Receiving the items, the Administrator of the prison, Chief Gabriel Nortey, was grateful to Blue Rose Ltd for always remembering the camp every year.