A locked gate.
A living garden.
A way out.
Refuge pulls women and children out of trafficking networks and walks them into safe houses, job training rooms, and courtrooms where their voices finally carry weight.
"Every square is someone who made it out."
Healing is ordinary days
accumulating.
These stories are anonymized to protect dignity. The outcomes are real and verified.
The first night Maya slept without screaming, I sat outside her door until morning. Not because I was afraid. Because I needed to hear the quiet. I had forgotten what it sounded like.
— Adaeze, mother of two, housed through Refuge's Nairobi program
Now in her 14th month of safe housing
I teach the sewing class on Tuesdays now. Six women. I show them the same stitch someone showed me eighteen months ago. It is a small thing. I do it every week.
— Priya, program graduate and vocational trainer
Certified instructor, employed on-site since 2024
They asked me what I wanted. Nobody had asked me that in years. I said I wanted to learn to read a lease. So they taught me. Now I sign my own name on my own door.
— Fatima, legal literacy program participant
Independent housing secured, February 2025
The courtroom was the hardest day. But I had a lawyer who knew my name. And after, we got tea. Just tea. It was the most ordinary thing. I held that cup for a long time.
— Blessing, legal advocacy client
Case successfully prosecuted, 2025
My daughter drew a picture of our room. She drew curtains. Blue curtains. We don't have blue curtains. But she drew them anyway. I think she was drawing what she imagined safe looks like.
— Yewande, resident, transitional housing program
Enrolled in job training, starting month three
What your giving
actually does.
These numbers are audited annually and tied to individual case files. Every digit is a person.
Women & Children Housed
Across 6 safe house locations
Program Completion Rate
Vocational & life skills training
Legal Cases Supported
Prosecutions and protective orders
On the Ground
Building trust in communities since 2011
2026 Safe Housing Goal
Funding 500 new beds across 3 regions
67%
$201,000 of $300,000
Updated February 2026 · Audited by Grant Thornton
Three doors.
All of them open.
The path from
crisis to certainty.
01 / Safe House & Immediate Care
02 / Job Training & Life Skills
03 / Legal Advocacy & Long-Term Support
Safe House & Immediate Care
Within 48 hours of referral, a woman and her children are placed in a secure, undisclosed safe house. Medical care, warm meals, and a locked door. The first thing we restore is ordinary safety — the right to sleep without fear.
Average intake time: 31 hours. 6 locations, 24/7 staffed.
Job Training & Life Skills
Vocational modules run 12 weeks. Sewing, food service, digital literacy, small business accounting. Life skills run alongside — lease reading, banking, healthcare navigation. We build the vocabulary of a life no one controls but her.
89% completion rate. Average wage increase: 340% post-program.
Legal Advocacy & Long-Term Support
Our legal team knows every client by name. We prepare cases, accompany women to court, and follow up for 24 months post-program. Because safety isn't a moment — it's a structure. We help build it, brick by quiet brick.
347 cases supported. 78% successful prosecution rate.
The most radical thing
we do is make life
boring and safe.
Your gift lands somewhere specific. $35 buys one week of safe housing. $120 funds a full vocational module. Every dollar is traceable to a person.
Give your skills
instead.
Some of the most valuable things we offer were built by people who gave their Tuesday afternoons.