VISION on Mission (VoM) is hoping the general public will not stigmatise the 11 deportees who recently returned to TT, the NGO's head Giselle Chance told Newsday in an interview on April 2. She said VoM was offering help to those seeking it, as were the families of many of the returnees.

Newsday contacted VoM after seeing photographs of the deportees being posted on social media, sometimes to ominous background music.

Founded 20 years ago by Chance's deceased husband Wayne Chance, himself a former inmate, VoM's mission is to "reach out to every prisoner, ex-offender, deportee, delinquent youth and socially displaced person" so as "to restore a positive, productive, law-abiding citizen" to the communities, nation and world.