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Zimbabwe: Bakers Inn Donates 1,000 Loaves to Prisoners

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Original Post Date: 2009-05-18 Time: 19:00:03  Posted By: Jan

Harare – A LOCAL bakery has donated 1 000 loaves of bread to the Zimbabwe Prison Services and pledged to supply more than 3 500 loaves every day to five prisons around Harare for six months.

Bakers Inn, a subsidiary of the Innscor Group, on Wednesday handed over the bread to the ZPS as part of their efforts to assist the department until the economic situation in the country stabilises.

Bakers Inn general manager Mr David Muchinguri said they would be donating more than 3 500 loaves to five prisons daily.

The institutions are Harare Central Remand Prison, Harare Central Prison, Chikurubi Maximum Security, Chikurubi Farm Prison and Chikurubi Female Prison.

He said the allocations would be according to the number of inmates at a particular prison.

Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison has the highest population among the country’s correctional institutions.

The donation comes at a time the ZPS is battling to improve the living conditions at its prison complexes.

The organisation has appealed for donations of food, medication and blankets for inmates as the winter season sets in.

Speaking at the occasion, Commissioner of Prisons Retired Major-General Paradzai Zimondi urged all local well-wishers to chip in with donations instead of waiting for central Government and foreign donors to assist.

“We must not depend on outside donors only but local stakeholders must also help because the inmates belong to everyone in the community,” he said.

Rtd Maj-Gen Zimondi said the aim of sending people to prison was to rehabilitate them so that they would come out as responsible members of society.

“It is, therefore, pleasing to note that organisations like Bakers Inn have come to realise that the rehabilitation of inmates is not a prerogative of the prisons alone, but calls for the intervention of various players,” Rtd Maj-Gen Zimondi said.

He said Government was doing its best to help but the ZPS budget allocation was not enough for the upkeep of prisoners.

Rtd Maj-Gen Zimondi said they had prison farms that could be of major help in feeding inmates.

“We have many prison farms that can grow food to benefit the inmates but our problem is that we lack some inputs like seeds, fertilizer and diesel. So anyone is welcome to help with anything,” he said.

Bakers Inn has in the past donated water tanks and a booster pump to Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, a move that has seen inmates benefiting from clean water supplies.

Original Source: The Herald (Harare)
Published by the government of Zimbabwe
Original date published: 16 May 2009

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200905180566.html?viewall=1