The Female Prisoners Welfare Project was established in 1986 in response to the lack of services for women in prison. Hibiscus was set up in 1990 to cater specifically for the special needs of Foreign National and British based Black and Minority Ethnic women in prison.
Our core activities are:
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Ensure that the women we work with understand the British Criminal Justice System and their rights within it
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Ensure that all women exercise their rights whilst in prison and have access to appropriate services upon their release
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Help women prisoners maintain and develop the relationship with their children and other dependants.
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VOLUNTEERING
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BARBADOS
2008
Collaboration with NCSA campaign
GHANA
2007
Maame goes to London
NIGERIA
2006/2008
Bola gets rich quick
JAMAICA
2005
Eva goes to foreign
The close link to our office in Kingston, Jamaica, and contacts in other countries around the world ensure that we are able to contact children and otherd dependant relatives. We help provide food, counselling and referrals to local support agencies.
We undertake research and offer workshops to prison staff on cultural diversity and ethnic understanding.
Find out more about the services we provide.
Stopping Ghana's Drug Trade
Visit the BBC website for a report by Guy Smith on Hibiscus campaign in Ghana
8th
October 2007
Conference:
How to Reduce Needless Prison Overcrowding -
Some Practical Solutions
more
Trinidad radio
host takes drug fight to London
May 25 2009 more>>
Tobagonian drug mule interviewed at London prison
May 26 2009 more>>
The Guardian, 14 May 2009
Long sentences for drug mules were never going to act as a deterrent
These naive smugglers are typically badly educated single mothers coerced
into crime, says Olga Heaven
more>>
ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
5, May 2009
International Organisation for Migation Straddling
the Border: Drug Mules and Human Trafficking
more>>
25th October 2007
Stopping Ghana's Drug Trade
Visit the BBC website for a report by Guy Smith on Hibiscus campaign
in Ghana
more>>
15th June 2006
Charity Awards
The winners of the Charity
Awards 2006 were announced at
a gala presentation dinner on 15
June. Hibiscus received the
overall award for excellence in
charity management...
more>>
19th January 2006
BBC Story follows a mother who
returns home to Jamaica after
serving her sentence in the UK.
more>>
3rd October 2005
Visit the BBC news website
where they are featuring a Drug
couriers story.
more >>
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