Prison Fellowship Assists Inmates’ Families In FCT

The Prison Fellowship Nigeria (PFN) has graduated new mentors trained to empower vulnerable families through sustainable agriculture.

The graduation ceremony for the “Home Harvest Livelihood Training” was held in Abuja yesterday and attended by officials, partners and the newly certified “community champions”.

The executive director of Prison Fellowship Nigeria, Dr Jacob Tsado, in his keynote address, stated that the initiative was a direct response to the often-overlooked plight of inmates’ families.

“The Home Harvest Livelihood Project was conceived as a strategic response to a painful reality we encounter daily in our work: when a key breadwinner is removed from the home through incarceration, the entire household is exposed to severe economic shock.

“These families often face hunger, stigma, isolation, and limited access to traditional development interventions. Too frequently, they fall through the cracks,” he said.

He explained that the project aims to improve the quality of life of families of inmates by strengthening household food security and creating income-generating opportunities, that the initial phase benefits 125 families across six states: Abuja, Niger, Nasarawa, Ondo, Ekiti and Osun.

The controller general of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Sylvester Ndidi Nwakuche, who was represented at the event by Assistant Comptroller Etuh Simon Paul commended the initiative, aligning it with the service’s mandate.