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Mama Mary
Mama Mary came to the Middle East as a domestic worker from Kenya. She loves Jesus and is obedient to Him. She saw many young African women suffer abuse and injustice as domestic workers, and personally helped hundreds of women who had been imprisoned in the Middle East. She began to help them process out of prison, provide them with needs, visit them while they are in prison, and get plane tickets for them to return to their home countries.
Then came Melissa...
Our Projects
Prison Visits
Every week on visitation days, we go to the prison to spend time with the women. During these visits, we encourage the women and seek to understand more about their situations. Most importantly, we let them know they are SEEN, HEARD, AND CARED FOR.
Case Processing
Part of our team’s role is to assist the women in learning more about their legal cases. This often entails inquiring about their cases on their behalf at the local police stations or applying for travel documents through their regional embassies when necessary. Recently, through a generous donor we have secured a lawyer to help us with some of the harder cases and he has a been a huge help in our work.
Hygiene Items
In detention centers, the women cannot access hygiene items unless they purchase them themselves. On every prison visit, the volunteers bring a small financial gift for the women so they can buy things like toothpaste and sanitary pads. Often, these gifts are from the volunteers themselves.
Care Packages
We provide care packages for women in prison and detention centers. This includes hygiene items and approved clothing items. Care packages often depend on an application process to do a distribution that must be approved by the police director, but is an additional way to encourage the women.
Tickets Home
A big part of what we do is to support the women ready to travel by buying a repatriation ticket to their home countries. They will not be released from detention if they cannot purchase a flight back to their country, regardless if they have no case against them or have finished their sentence. We fundraise and purchase their tickets so they can finally return home.
Reintegration
We are currently developing partners throughout African countries where most of the domestic workers are from to help receive women when they are released and repatriated. These partners offer services such as airport pickups, counseling, spiritual enhancement programs, and job training for the women to be reintegrated back into their home countries.
Our Mission
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Mama Mary
Mama Mary came to the Middle East as a domestic worker from Kenya. She loves Jesus and is obedient to Him. She saw many young African women suffer abuse and injustice as domestic workers, and personally helped hundreds of women who had been imprisoned in the Middle East. She began to help them process out of prison, provide them with needs, visit them while they are in prison, and get plane tickets for them to return to their home countries.
Then came Melissa...
Mama Mary
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Mama Mary came to the Middle East as a domestic worker from Kenya. She loves Jesus and is obedient to Him. She saw many young African women suffer abuse and injustice as domestic workers, and personally helped hundreds of women who had been imprisoned in the Middle East. She began to help them process out of prison, provide them with needs, visit them while they are in prison, and get plane tickets for them to return to their home countries.
Then came Melissa...
Melissa joined Mary in the work, and when Mary returned to Kenya took on leadership of Set Captives Free. She is passionate about justice and mercy and works tirelessly to advocate for African domestic workers in the Middle East.
Melissa
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