Par­tic­i­pants in the in­au­gur­al Re-In­te­gra­tion Sup­port and Em­pow­er­ment (RISE) project are be­ing en­cour­aged to make the most of the train­ing they have re­ceived over the past few months and con­tin­ue their progress to­wards pro­duc­ing ful­fill­ing lives.

The pi­lot pro­gramme, which tar­gets fe­male in­mates, ex­posed par­tic­i­pants to ther­a­py, trau­ma man­age­ment, vo­ca­tion­al skills and oth­er life skills as part of a dri­ve to pre­vent re­cidi­vism among women.

Dur­ing a grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny at the Prison Sports Grounds and Cul­tur­al Club, Gold­en Grove, Arou­ca, on Wednes­day, Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Van­dana Mo­hit, praised the par­tic­i­pants for their will­ing­ness to learn and grow with the pro­gramme and hoped the con­tent de­liv­ered in­spired them to think be­yond their cur­rent cir­cum­stances.