Teen Moms Get Mother’s Day Boost from Panty Paradise

Rallicia Lawrence (right), the owner and proprietor of Panty Paradise, as she hands over a Mother’s Day donation to the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation, WCJF, on Friday, May 9, 2025. She’s joined in the image by Ms Thomas from the WCJF. (Image contributed.)

As Jamaica celebrates Mother’s Day on Sunday, some of the nation’s most marginalised parents received a boost from a local small business, Panty Paradise.

The adolescent mothers who benefit from the support of the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation, WCJF, received a donation of maternity themed items for Mother’s Day.

The WCJF, an agency of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, was established in 1978 under the name the Women’s Centre Programme for Adolescent Mothers. It changed its name in 1991 when it achieved foundation status.

The foundation provides resources for continuing education for young mothers and counseling for both adolescent mothers and fathers.

Panty Paradise, through the business’ owner and proprietor, Rallicia Lawrence, made the donation at the WCFJ’s headquarters on Trafalgar Road in St Andrew on Friday.

The donation to the young mothers includes $50,000 worth of maternity underwear, maternity bras, breast pads and wipes.

Speaking with our news centre, Ms Lawrence remained modest while discussing her company’s outreach.

“Children are blessings, no matter what age they dawn on a mother’s life,“ said Ms Lawrence.

Rallicia Lawrence, owner and proprietor of Panty Paradise, as she prepares to make a Mother’s Day donation to the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation on Friday, May 9, 2025. (Image contributed.)

Panty Paradise is a business that focuses on sensual and comfortable female underwear.

Since launching the first iteration of the company online and out of her car in 2015, Lawrence has grown Panty Paradise to include customisable underwear and expanded it into a similar shop for males.

In June, Panty Paradise, in its current form, will be celebrating its eighth anniversary.

As part of the company’s community outreach, Panty Paradise also organises an annual Christmas drive geared towards providing sanitary napkins to some of the country’s most vulnerable women.

The drive, which started in December 2022, made donations to Mary’s Child, a Mustard Seed Community home for teenaged mothers, in 2022 and 2023. In 2024, SOS Children’s Village was the beneficiary of Panty Paradise’s outreach.

You can contribute to the yearly Christmas drive by visiting Panty Paradise in Clock Tower Plaza in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew in December or by contacting the business at (876) 492-8400.