The Female Prisoner’s Welfare Project–Hibiscus Jamaica Ltd was established in 1993. Its mandate is to provide the United Kingdom Judicial System with information regarding the socio–economic status of Jamaican women incarcerated for drug trafficking offences. The Agency also supports the resettlement, reintegration and rehabilitation of the women upon their return to the Jamaica.
FPWP-Hibiscus Jamaica also provides on-going assistance to the children of imprisoned women to minimize the social, psychological and physical impact of the incarceration of their mothers serving time in prisons in the United Kingdom for drug and other offences. Hibiscus assists them by attending to their emotional, physical, psychological and educational needs as well as their general welfare.
FPWP-Hibiscus Jamaica Ltd currently has 310 women and 425 children in the programme.
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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 localsupport 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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