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International Resettlement and Detention Services

International Resettlement and Detention Services

I will definitely keep in touch you have been so amazing” (Client who moved to Brazil)

Our primary concern is to support those in Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs), offering returns and resettlement assistance to those who are actively interested in returning to their country.  A part of our service is also focused on assisting our clients with practical and emotional support throughout their stay in detention.  The prospect of having to leave the UK, along with the uncertainty that being in detention brings, leads to many of our clients being traumatised, scared and vulnerable.  Significant numbers are unable to speak English or understand the UK immigration system.  In delivering our services in the IRCs we provide advice and guidance to clients ensuring they are in a more stable and positive position upon returning to their country.  We work alongside statutory and charitable agencies to find the best possible outcome for the clients, and signpost those wishing to challenge their case to services that can assist them.  Offering trauma-informed emotional support runs throughout our resettlement work and helps to ease our client’s transition from the UK, assisting them towards a dignified return.

“The welfare services were impressive and there was positive engagement with third sector groups, including the charity Hibiscus Initiatives which provided support to many detainees before release or removal.”

From a recent report on Harmondsworth IRC

Artwork created by our clients in Yarl’s Wood

Contact

Louise Hatch 
Head of International Resettlement and
Detention Services
0207 697 4120 ext. 4127
07538 913 911
louise@hibiscus.org.uk

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Albania

Bangladesh

Ghana

India

Iraq

Jamaica

Nigeria

Pakistan

Poland

Romania

Sri Lanka

Vietnam

WHAT'S NEW

Our Annual Review           2019-2020
21 Dec 2020

Our Annual Review 2019-2020

CLOSED DOORS:                                                                              A new report by Hibiscus
2 Dec 2020

CLOSED DOORS: A new report by Hibiscus

HIBISCUS INITIATIVES ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF NEW CEO, MARCHU GIRMA
10 Sep 2020

HIBISCUS INITIATIVES ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF NEW CEO, MARCHU GIRMA

Hibiscus Initiative’s Response to COVID-19
16 Apr 2020

Hibiscus Initiative’s Response to COVID-19

Article on repatriation
25 Mar 2019

Article on repatriation

Volunteering opportunity (ongoing): Basic computer skills teacher
25 Mar 2019

Volunteering opportunity (ongoing): Basic computer skills teacher

Commonweal Housing Competition
26 Feb 2019

Commonweal Housing Competition

Empowering the Adolescent Girl – an art exhibition in Resource for London with input from Hibiscus
12 Oct 2018

Empowering the Adolescent Girl – an art exhibition in Resource for London with input from Hibiscus

Still No Way Out report published
17 Sep 2018

Still No Way Out report published

Stephen Shaw’s follow up report on the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons
8 Aug 2018

Stephen Shaw’s follow up report on the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons

LIFE STORIES

Feedback from Yarl’s Wood IRC

Chau’s story

Poems from Yarl’s Wood

Poems from Yarl’s Wood

Community Resettlement Prisons

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