Jail hosts food security training

More than 50 prisoners, Correctional Services officers and their families at Barawagi Jail in Chimbu received four days of training on food security recently.
The training looked at food production, preparation, processing and preservation and was led by a Ghanaian Catholic priest, Fr Joseph Sakite, who has been conducting such training since 1993.
The training was aimed to promote “gutpela sindaun” (better living) to empower rural and urban communities with food security training to raise living standards and provide economic activities to generate income to sustain the lives of people.
During the training they were taught how to make peanut butter from peanut, cooking oil from pig fat, flour, gari (lasts for years and can sustain people’s lives in times of drought) and fufu (dumpling) from cassava, and sitor (a food seasoning made from mincemeat, ginger, tomato paste and cooking oil).
Fr Sakite encouraged the prisoners to pay attention and learn so that once they were released, they could go back to their land and avoid trouble.
Barawagi commanding officer Michael Awirap said prisons needed more such rehabilitation to help transform prisoners to be useful and good citizens in their villages and homes when they go back.