International Youth Fellowship Collaborates with The Ghana Prisons Services To Hold Theology and Mindset Education Graduation and Ordination Ceremonies For Inmates
International Youth Fellowship Collaborates with The Ghana Prisons Services To Hold Theology and Mindset Education Graduation and Ordination Ceremonies For Inmates
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
The International Youth Fellowship has collaborated with the Ghana Prisons Services To Hold Theology and Mindset Education Graduation and Ordination Ceremonies For Inmates
Some ninety inmates of the Nsawam Medium Prison were rebranded into change agents to administer change in the prison walls of Nsawam during the graduation ceremony that was held on Monday, March 14, 2022, at the Prisons Headquarters, Cantonments Accra.
International Youth Fellowship (IYF) Ghana, Christian Leaders Fellowship-USA and the Ghana Prison Service collaborated for the ceremony.
Most prison inmates in our prisons today have little or no hope in educating themselves whiles serving their jail sentences.
International Youth Fellowship Ghana, Christian Leaders Fellowship-USA in collaboration with the Ghana Prison Service has taken some inmates through Biblical Theology and the Mindset Education Programme for the past two years and are due to graduate to become reverend ministers in the prisons.
This same occasion marks the opening of Theology Schools in the other prison installations across the country.
International Youth Fellowship (IYF), a Christian organization, inaugurated this bible school and mindset education programme at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison in the year 2019 to facilitate reformation and rehabilitation of the prisons.
The programme was instituted by the IYF, in collaboration with the Police and Corrections Forum (PCF), a non-governmental organization (NGO), and the Ghana Prisons Service.
Speaking in an interview with the Secretary of the Fellowship, Reverend Atto Edwin disclosed that the International Youth Fellowship; strives to guide young people to break free from fear, hopelessness and sin that darkens their hearts and lead them to live a happy and bright life with the “MINDSET EDUCATION CONCEPT.”
Mindset Education Concept teaches the world of the heart, captures psychosocial counselling, character reforming techniques and emotional intelligence.
According to him, Compared to economic growth and materialistic wealth, the value of the human mind is overlooked by modern society.
Our society, which is rapidly developing, has its focus on increasing and expanding materialistic economic values. Consequently, more emphasis is placed on quantitative expansion rather than inner values, with more and more cases of justifying the means by the ends.
This has been one of the major reasons most young people end up in prison; using shortcuts to make ends meet.
He said through mindset education, the International Youth Fellowship precisely teaches the world of the heart and the kind of mentality that will lead inmates to a successful and happy life.
Most of our social problems today are often explained only in terms of superficial causes such as poverty, illiteracy, and bad development policies. However, if policymakers do not come to know the fundamental reason for the problems that bedevil us as a society, such occurrences are likely to remain unresolved and would rather get worse than better.
Mr Courage Atsem said the Ghana Prisons Service is committed to charging the mindset of inmates to be good abiding citizens.
Adding that, the Mindset Education Concept is in the accordance with prisons service core mandate and will go a long way to help the inmates.
Richard Nyarko, an ex-convert who participated in the Mindset Education Concept thanks IYF for introducing such an important initiative within the wall of the prison; he, therefore, urged inmates to part take in the mindset education concept hence it will go a long way to improve their lives.
