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The government will continue a project of training prisoners in the field of saplings, extending to the whole country the pilot experiment developed in the penitentiary of Alcoentre.
"We can guarantee, on the one hand," said State Secretary for Forests, Miguel Freitas, explaining that the project will count on the participation of the Institute of Nature Conservation and forests (ICNF), in partnership with the prison services
Speaking to the Lusa agency, the holder of the portfolio Forestry and rural development said that the pilot experiment has developed at the Alcoentre prison with 15 inmates be trained as a sapper, between March 1 and May 31 this year, was completed with " success ", so it is expected that
" We consider this pilot program as interesting and we will now move to the national level ", added Miguel Freitas, adding that the idea is" to expand this training at other institutions ".
The training of prisoners in the field of saplings is 250 hours, with seven modules, namely issues related to climate, characterization and identification of forest species, forest prevention, the 39, maintenance of forests, the use of machines and tools in the forest, the size and thinning, so "a formation of forestry saper equivalent to that of what is done at the level in this context, the project will be developed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development and by the Ministry of Justice, through the work of the Services of the Ministry of Justice. Prisons and the training capacity of the ICNF, an institute that will make available "public forests for all work, either training or tasks subsequent to what is the training action then there will be a practice on the part of the det en. "
We will extend it, gradually, because there is a willingness on the part of the prisons, normally this happens when training programs are available to go from the front" , said the State Secretary for Forests, adding that the trainees are "prisoners who are already in the open system, so that they are in the final stages of the execution of their sentence and many of them can, in
From Miguel Freitas's point of view, "the issue of the forest is a problem that belongs to everyone, everyone should contribute."
"We must work in all availabilities and it's a program that can make a contribution to what is a task that is certainly not just this component, so it's just another social segment that we want to work for what is great "
In addition to the participation Prison Services and ICNF, the Government project intends to rely on the collaboration of the forest producers' organizations and the National Association of Sapers (ANSF)
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