The centres are likely to help rehabilitate the convicts by changing their attitudes through learning. PHOTO: FILE
“NCHD has successfully piloted the Adult Literacy Centres Jail Project in Sargodha and it was very fruitful. Report of the project has been shared with President Mamnoon Hussain who had appreciated the efforts of the commission,” said NCHD chairperson Razina Alam Khan.
‘Over 40 per cent of Pakistani adults are illiterate’
“We are going to expand this project to all the jails of Pakistan with an aim to make the convicts useful citizens by imparting literacy along with vocational skills to prisoners and help them earn a livelihood and respect from their family and the society,” she said during a meeting of the commission’s senior management at the NCHD’s head office in Islamabad on Monday.
The literacy centres, she said, would help rehabilitate the convicts by changing their attitudes through education and psychotherapy, she said.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 25th, 2017.
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