Pillar to Post invites your school/organisation to participate in a tour to Correctional Services. To date, and with great success, 1500 tours have been conducted with phenomenal feedback. This specifically designed tour dispels the myth that prison is a five-star hotel. One sees first hand that it is an overcrowded place of punishment, where dreams become illusions and a place where you could bec
ome just a number. Nothing that you experience on tour is candy-coated and the message is loud and clear, but the approach is gentle and loving and it is this combination which is the winning formula. The tours are not available to the general public as it is exclusive for school learners, educators and organisation staff members. Furthermore, this programme does not glamorise or objectify offenders, nor does it glamorise prison. The outcome of the experience should lead one to a realisation to rediscover their sense of existence and be willing to reform their outlook about crime, encouraging one to rehabilitate before serving time. The cost of these tours is R 6 000 per bus (including bus & including lunch) or R 5 100 per bus (including bus & excluding lunch) or R4 100 (excluding bus & including lunch) or R 3 200 (excluding bus & excluding lunch). The tour schedule / cost includes:
- Arrangement of transport to and from the closest Correctional Services (optional)
- Arrangement of tour guide to meet school/company at entrance to brief about rules and regulations
- Guided tours of all available centres
- Hard-hitting testimonies by offenders
- A forty-minute drama by offenders
- Group discussions between offenders and learners/staff, and
- Lunch and refreshments (optional)
Tour objectives:
- To reform the outlook of our youth and staff about crime
- To rehabilitate youth and staff before serving time
- To create a safer school/working environment
- To show learners and staff first hand the reality and harsh results of crime
- To prevent South Africans from shifting from being a member of society to becoming an offender
- For the youth of your province to rediscover their sense of existence
- To create a safer country
- The programme was featured as the flagship programme, three years in a row by the Department of Correctional Services during Corrections Week in 2007, 2008 and 2009
- The programme has been participated by over 1000 schools (55 800 learners and 2 700 educators)
- All schools that participated reported a change in behaviour and criminal activities at their school
- The programme has been featured in sixty three newspapers, as well as a wide range of electronic media including television, radio and websites. Please see "Tour Media" links
- The drama “Crime Doesn’t Pay – It Costs” was featured at the 2009 Grahamstown National Arts Festival and presented at five public performances
- The programme is currently operational in 5 Correctional Centres in Gauteng. Namely Leeuwkop Centre, Boksburg Centre, Johannesburg Centre, Krugersdorp Centre and Pretoria Central Centre
- The programme was piloted on a small scale at Grootvlei Centre in Bloemfontein, Free State and Barberton Centre in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga
To book a tour and for addition information, please contact Hayley Fredericks, Project Manager at 0861 888 116 or 076 223 8981 or [email protected]
