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Not A Number

Rehabilitation & Reintegration Projects

  • Brick By Brick Petit Verger Prison: A comprehensive construction-focused reintegration project that offers masonry training, development of employability skills, and individualised support to address criminogenic factors and support needs both pre-release and post-release. The project connects released trainees to job opportunities in the community, helping them live a crime-free life.
  • Brick By Brick Rodrigues Prison: Similar to the Brick By Brick project in Mauritius, this initiative focuses on pre-release skills development in construction while connecting trainees to local post-release support. It also includes capacity building for two prison officers in masonry training.

 

Prevention Projects

  • Inspir Mwa: This programme empowers young people to uncover their aspirations, develop goals, identify obstacles, and work towards creating an inspiring and motivating future. Re-adjusted for Covid-19, it is now also available online via WhatsApp and multimedia resources.
  • Cultivating Communities: A collaborative series of one-day workshops with Farmcity, a learning farm, where at-risk young people explore social and environmental issues affecting their communities. Based on their learning during the day, as groups they developed their own ideas for addressing crime, drugs and other social issues in their communities during the workshops.

 

Accreditation Number with the National Social Inclusion Foundation: CSRF/2019/0042

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Services offered
  • Prisoner reintegration services (project-based)
  • Youth projects focused on personal development and career advice
  • Capacity building training to other organisations

 

Beneficiaries: Not A Number serves a wide range of individuals and groups, including the community, ex-offenders, prisoners, individuals at risk of offending, victims of crime, as well as staff, students, and other stakeholders.

History

Not A Number was founded in 2017 in response to needs identified during research conducted at the Correctional Youth Centre. Since its inception, the NGO has organised events, training, and projects focused on the rehabilitation and reintegration of detainees. Additionally, Not A Number is dedicated to crime prevention at the community level, continuously working towards creating safer and more supportive environments for all individuals.

Objectives

Our Vision: 

A safe world with an optimal environment for human potential to flourish.

 

Our Mission:

To contribute to a safer society through empowerment and innovation.

 

What We Do:

  • Safety: Developing and delivering projects focused on crime prevention and resettlement.
  • Collaboration: Providing a platform that brings together various stakeholders involved in reducing crime through innovative events, training, and collaborative initiatives. This platform facilitates dialogue, debate, and the pursuit of best practices.
  • Innovation: Creating tools and resources to support more effective work within the criminal justice sector.
Main achievements

Brick By Brick Projects (Mauritius and Rodrigues):

  • Training Completion: 30 trainees successfully completed the construction training.
    • Mauritius: 18 trainees
    • Rodrigues: 12 trainees (including 2 prison officers)
  • Post-Release Employment (Mauritius): 12 out of 16 released participants found employment.
    • 10 in the construction field and 2 in other sectors

 

Inspir Mwa Projects:

  • Approximately 40 young people have completed the programme so far.
Sources of funding
  • NSIF (National Social Inclusion Foundation)
  • Corporate Support