Reference :
V-P-PA-E-00147
Date :
09/11/2017
Caption :
Panama City, La Joya prison. Native trees from Panama are growing in Sembrando Paz vivarium. The vivarium started in November 2016, with the approval of the penitentiary system authorities and the police, who are now sponsors of the initiative. It also receives support from the ICRC in the form of the recycling project, EcoSólidos.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
When saplings have reached a certain height and it has not been possible to take them out of the vivarium to be planted elsewhere, the National Police asks the inmates to cut them back or remove them. On exceptional occasions, workers have been authorized to leave the prison to participate in the planting. Days like this motivate detainees to continue their efforts.
ICRC website, 18.01.2018, Photo gallery: “The La Joyita prison, in Panama, offers a number of programmes to help the inmates occupy their time fruitfully. By educating themselves, the inmates also work towards reducing their sentences. One of the most popular and valued programmes is the Sembrando Paz (Sowing Peace) vivarium where more than 50 workers grow plants as part of a process that prepares them for reintegration into society.
The oasis in the prison was started by the prisoners themselves. They took an abandoned area, cleaned it up and started growing plants using their own resources.
Currently, the vivarium has over 16,000 seedlings with a market value of 20,000 US dollars and a productivity rate that could be the envy of any private garden. Part of the plant production profits is used to contribute to the Million Hectares Alliance, a programme that seeks to replant one million hectares in Panama over the next 20 years. Sembrando Paz is also one of the few vivariums in the country that has an excellent production of native trees.”
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
6720x4480
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
