Centre graduates inmates in entrepreneurship
last weekend awarded 24 juvenile inmates who successfully completed a six-week business management course at Mikuyu Prison 2 in Zomba.
The inmates were specifically drilled in business establishment, market searching, production, marketing as well as financial management skills.
CFME director Peter Yakobe said lack of business skills among the youth often drag most young Malawians into immoral behaviour which lands them in jail.
He said his organisation was saddened to observe that most juvenile inmates are left with nothing when released from jail and often break the law again as they have no business skills to make them busy.
“Introduction of business skills in prisons countrywide is a best instrument that can boost the rehabilitation of inmates,” he said.
According to Yakobe, the current unemployment crisis will remain ‘a thorn in the fresh’ if people will not embrace entrepreneurship as an exit strategy from poverty to prosperity.
He emphasised that entrepreneurs take risks in their lives by generating business ideas and transforming such ideas into businesses that fuel the growth of the economy at individual, community as well as national level.
On her part, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Prisons Catherine Ngwira who is also the Regional Commanding Officer for the Eastern Region hailed CFME for the training which she said will help turn the prisoners into productive citizenry.
Francisco Mahala, a participant, described the training as an eye-opener and hoped to venture into a serious business activity once released from the prison.
