Dear Editor,

I would like to appreciate one of the most reliable and effective methods of making convicts reform, TIG. The way in which the government of Rwanda was able to come up with this program is brilliant.

Instead of prisoners eating and sleeping in their cells, they are deployed for manual labor in the various fields and sectors of development.

By doing this, they are able to improve on their practical skills especially in the sectors of infrastructure like building and road construction, farming, forestry where tree planting is done among many others.

In this way even when the prisoners are released, they can have a way of earning income to survive in society. Many people should not look down on these prisoners as though what they are doing is a punishment.

Thanking them occasionally would be a step forward in reconciliation and reformation. Besides the work, that they are doing is excellent.

The free people who do not notice the work they do should just look at some of the roads and buildings they have constructed. They are professional and depict skills.

In addition, the trees they have planted help to prevent soil erosion and an example of this is the area up hill on your way to Ndera.

TIG community work is beneficial to our community and should be appreciated.

Kigali