PARTNERSHIP WITH MUNI UNIVERSITY TO TRANSFORM SKILLING PROGRAM AT ARUA MAIN PRISON

By Sunday Amandi

Arua city

The skilling program at Arua main prison for the inmates will empower the inmates more for self-reliance, enabling them to be responsible members of the community, as they are getting in to a partnership with Muni University to upgrade the standards of the skilling program.

The inmates in Arua main prison are benefitting from the skilling programs of carpentry and joinery, metal works, tailoring, salon management, brick laying and concrete practice among others, and they are made to take interest in the skills of their interest.

Joseph Wandabwa, the rehabilitation and integration officer at the main prison says, they have a partnership with Muni University in the skilling program to make the certificates acquired by the inmates recognizable nationally,

“Now we are in partnership with Muni university, they are helping us to skill professionally, programs which are running now, they are going to be examined by DIT so that we have certificates which are recognized, that if somebody uses that certificate to go and look for a job, it is at least equitable to a certain standard of learning, now they are putting us to a certain standard that is recognized Nationally,” Wandabwa confirmed.

Wandabwa says, the programs are intended to transform the inmates, making them important to their societies after serving their sentences,

“These people when they are here, we encourage them to empress the skilling programs which are here, some of them come here when they have nothing they know that makes them to be idle and maybe they engage in other programs which are not good because of the peer pressures outside, but now when they come here and happen to get these skills, we wish that if they go back, it is now the foundation, you can either go and look for a job somewhere, or you become self-employed,” Wandabwa said.

However, when contacted to understand more on the partnership, Professor Simon Anguma Katrini, the vice chancellor of Muni University declined to comment saying he was not much aware of it yet.

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