Dept facilitates training for probationers, juveniles

LIFE skills passed on to probationers and juveniles will make it possible for them to make a living, trainers say.
Products on show during training were coconut soap, pawpaw soap, coconut laundry soap and virgin coconut-moringa oil.
Members of the Foundation of Women in Agriculture Development (FWAD) in Maprik,East Sepik, Antonia Nakau and Augusta Joy passed on the skills to probationers and juveniles on how to make to the products.
The trainers said that by producing and selling products made from local ingredients probationers and juveniles could sustain themselves.
The basic ingredient in the products was coconut.
Other ingredients were moringa and pawpaw, both available locally.
According to Nakau, FWAD’s goal on the day was to help train those on parole, youths and ageing people.
The two trainers were brought to Port Moresby last Friday by the Department of Justice and Attorney-General to conduct training.
“We have never been going to other districts and provinces to train people,” Nakau said.
“We came in April this year, and this is our second time in POM to train the people.”
She said the PNG Kokonas Indastri Koporesen and Cocoa Coconut Institute of PNG had educated and taught them how to produce those products cheaply.
Nakau told The National that more than 40,000 members had received such downstream processing training.
She said such products could sustain their living.
According to Janet Banabo, the executive director and founder of the Urban Rural Development Foundation, their focus was to create economic empowerment, giving youths and women access to services.