SafePlace Austin offers a comprehensive and compassionate continuum of services, providing support and resources to help survivors create independent lives, free of violence, for themselves, and their families. SafePlace is a leader throughout our community, the state, and the nation in building models for preventing and healing rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence. JONAH is dedicated to helping these survivor/victims rebuild their lives and discover new and lasting hope. SafePlace wishes to facilitate a permanent change in the lives of those they serve by providing the resources they need to start their lives anew and eliminate their desire to return to their cycles of violence.
Hope Alliance is dedicated to empowering victims of family violence, sexual assault, and other violent crimes through support and advocacy, while promoting community awareness, compassion, and responsibility for creating a safer community by providing direct services to adult and child victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and violent crime.
To support their missions, JONAH wishes to help raise the quality of life for their residents through the SOULJOURN program.
JONAH is currently developing several community service projects , fundraising events, and advocacy programs through the SOULJOURN program to raise awareness and resources for these organizations seeking to end domestic violence, sexual abuse, and rape in Austin and the surrounding areas. These projects will integrate Austin’s Arts, live music, and theater community with SafePlace and Hope Alliance.
To get more information and for opportunities to give and volunteer, visit SafePlace Austin at www.safeplace.org and Hope Alliance at www.wccc.info.
The Rafiki Foundation provides assistance to women and children affected by AIDS in ten countries in Africa. Rafiki builds villages to provide a clean home and a learning center for women and children. A medical center is also built in the village where all the people in the surrounding areas can come for medical care. Rafiki gives these women the skills to live and to survive on their own. Rafiki’s aim is to turn helpless children in Africa into Godly contributors in their own countries.
JONAH is currently developing several events to raise funds for travel and medical expenses for their onsite staff in these villages. The costs for travel and medical expenses are astronomical.
There is great need for doctors and nurses there because of the sick children orphanized by the AIDS pandemic. If you or someone you know is looking to go overseas to serve in the medical field, please email information@jonahministry.org.
Please visit their site to learn more at www.rafiki-foundation.org.