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The need
There are limited rehabilitation services in Papua New Guinea prisons. Although
many detainees are serving short sentences for relatively minor crimes, few are equipped for a more positive future when they’re released. Low literacy skills makes this problem even worse.
Corrective Services in PNG have been crying out for adequate materials, financial resources and trained personnel to conduct literacy training in prisons.
Bible Society is stepping in to offer prison inmates in PNG a goal and purpose in life after their release.
Making a difference
You can partner with us to fund Bible-based literacy classes in each of PNG’s eighteen prisons. Selected trainees will then undertake ‘Train the Trainer’ workshops so they in turn can offer literacy training to other detainees under supervision. Upon release, they will also be able to conduct literacy classes in their home communities, where only about half can read and write.
Literacy-trained detainees will also help translate simple Bible-based stories into their heart language - an invaluable resource when conducting literacy training in their local language.
Changed lives
Ekom Wakio is one of 12 detainees who participated in a literacy teacher training course at Vanimo Correctional Services in April 2009. He was asked to speak on behalf of all the trainees at their graduation ceremony. Ekom described each training session they attended as a privilege.
He and his classmates are now equipped to be literacy teachers. They have acquired skills that will enable them to teach their fellow inmates to read and write. More exciting still, they are now empowered to contribute meaningfully to their communities after their release.
Reaching the goal
• Bible based literacy courses for 4000 prisoners over 3 years
• Translate and produce Bible-related literacy materials for former prisoners’
use in home communities
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Donations to this project are tax-deductible
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