Female prisoners welcome a donation of food and toiletries
The New Life After Prison Community Forum together with Mulase Business Enterprise and Nedbank in Thohoyandou recently visited the Polokwane Correctional Services to donate children's food, nappies, milk and sanitary towels and toiletries to women at the centre.
POLOKWANE – The New Life After Prison Community Forum together with Mulase Business Enterprise and Nedbank in Thohoyandou recently visited the Polokwane Correctional Services to donate children’s food, nappies, milk and sanitary towels and toiletries to women at the centre.
New Life After Prison Community Forum is a non-profit organisation which started two years ago and helps to reunite ex-prisoners with their communities and to facilitate peace between offenders and aggrieved families.
The forum also helps to create sustainable lifeskills activities for the offenders after prison, educating communities about crime, providing spiritual counselling to offenders and providing accommodation and support to rejected offenders.
Makhuba Michell, the manager of the New Life After Prison Community Forum said: “We do not only assist people who come out of prison, but we also try to assist those who are inside so they do not feel neglected”.
The Correctional Services area commissioner, Kenneth Mthombeni said they were grateful for New Life After Prison Community Forum’s visit.
“We are grateful to them for assisting the prisoners and for the donation, which will really go a long way in assisting the female prisoners and their children,” said Mthombeni.
