{"id":19343,"date":"2021-04-16T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/advanceafrika.org\/2020\/?p=19343"},"modified":"2021-11-17T14:07:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T14:07:53","slug":"umunthu-education-and-skilling-for-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advanceafrika.org\/2020\/umunthu-education-and-skilling-for-offenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Umunthu-Education and Skilling for Offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With funding from Norweigian Agency for Exchange Cooperation, Chance for Change in partnership with Advance Afrika launched a new project \u201cUMUNTHU-Education and Skilling for Offenders\u201d. \u00a0\u00a0The objective of the partnership is to equip offenders with education and skills that will enable them to be self- reliant members of society. \u00a0The project builds on the experiences and lessons from a previous FK Norway exchange program (2016-2017) that focused on the socio-economic rehabilitation and reintegration of prison inmates and ex-inmates in Uganda and Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange continues to lead to the development of a holistic programme that gives young offenders a second chance by equipping them with entrepreneurship and life skills, rebuilding identity as well as cognitive behaviour and supporting the reintegration process of ex-offenders through mediation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19347\" src=\"http:\/\/advanceafrika.org\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/LOGO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"709\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advanceafrika.org\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/LOGO.jpg 709w, https:\/\/advanceafrika.org\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/LOGO-300x62.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With funding from Norweigian Agency for Exchange Cooperation, Chance for Change in partnership with Advance Afrika launched a new project&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advanceafrika.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advanceafrika.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advanceafrika.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advanceafrika.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advanceafrika.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19343"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/advanceafrika.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20078,"href":"https:\/\/advanceafrika.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343\/revisions\/20078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advanceafrika.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advanceafrika.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advanceafrika.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advanceafrika.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}