The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has announced that it will this week launch what will be called the ‘Ghana Prisons Project’.
The project which will be launched under the GFA Foundation on Friday, May 24, will be used to promote the wellbeing of inmates in Ghanaian prisons.
“This Football for Development initiative aims to use the power of football to promote the well-being, reformation, rehabilitation, and reintegration of inmates of Ghana’s prisons into society.
“This is what the GFA Foundation is undertaking by providing some prison facilities across the country with football equipment and logistics such as jerseys, footballs, goalkeepers gloves, and sets of football hose. Other items to be presented to the prisons include whistles, caution cards, and movable goalposts,” a Ghana FA statement said on Wednesday, May 22.
Through the ‘Ghana Prisons Project’, the GFA Foundation will also organize advocacy workshops to sensitize the public and the citizenry on the negative impact of discrimination and stigmatization of prisons and prisoners in line with the Foundation’s objective of using football and its outcomes to affect behavioral and social change.
The GFA Foundation will also facilitate coaching, refereeing, and mentorship training programs for inmates and officers in prison facilities.
