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The Female Prisoner’s Welfare Project (FWFP) Hibiscus - Jamaica was established in 1993 to support the resettlement, reintegration and rehabilitation needs of deported migrant women upon their return to the Jamaica.

Hibiscus Jamaica also provides on-going assistance to the children of incarcerated 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.

Children are assisted through interventions that attend to their emotional, physical, psychological and educational needs as well as their general welfare.

The Mission of FPWP Hibiscus Jamaica is to provide the United Kingdom Judicial System with information regarding the socio–economic status of Jamaican women incarcerated for drug trafficking offences.

The deported migrant population in Jamaica is in a precarious position; more so as the number of new deportees grow exponentially.The reality is that deported migrants are cast on the fringes of society, where they are despised and discriminated against, particularly in key life sustaining areas like housing and employment.

Jamaica has a significantly high proportion of female deported migrants most of whom were incarcerated overseas for couriering drugs during migration. Many of these women are mothers whose children are left without a main care giver while they are imprisoned. They also often return to graver circumstances than they had left, with little prospect of employment and little avenues to turn for advise or resettlement and reintegration after serving long sentences abroad.