THE Archbishop of the Action Chapel International, Duncan Williams, has pledged to adopt and renovate a dormitory facility of the Senior Correctional Centre, formerly known as the Borstal Institute.
He said the adoption would allow inmates of the centre who had finished their probation but had been rejected by the society to live in the college to learn a trade.
Rev. Ebenezer Obodai, a senior pastor of Action Chapel, made this known when the church presented food items, clothes and toiletries to the inmates of the centre.
The items included 40 bags of rice, 44 gallons of cooking oil, two boxes of washing soap, boxes of cocoa beverages, 13 boxes of drugs, 18 bags of used clothes, and toilet rolls among others.
Presenting the items, Rev Obodai said the donation was part of the church’s social responsibility to the community and society as a whole.
He advised the inmates to dedicate their lives to Christ no matter the situation, because they were gifts from God.
The Deputy Director of Prisons, Ms Elizabeth King, said the centre had 113 inmates who were being taken through formal and non-formal education.
She explained that the training would provide the inmates the opportunity to learn different vocations such as sewing, carpentry, ceramics, shoe-making, electrical works, and auto mechanics to shape them for the future.
“Eighteen inmates were trained within 10 months last year to partake in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE ) and they all passed to get placements in various senior high schools.
Ms King said the centre needed support from the society because the government gave only 60 pesewas per inmate a day, making it very difficult for the centre to provide the children three square meals a day.
She thanked the Action Chapel International for the gesture and support towards the renovation of a dormitory and gave the assurance that the domitory would be named after the church.
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