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Bahari Sisters inc. works to empower Kenyan women and children. Bahari supports micro-businesses, provides scholarships and is raising funds to place a Habihut water filtration kiosk in a Kenyan community which lacks sanitation.

“People in Transition (Alliston) Inc., “My Sister’s Place” is a not-for profit organization which provides a broad range of services designed to alleviate the consequences of violence against women and their children. “My Sister’s Place” is a 12-bed emergency shelter for women and their children who are seeking refuge from the violence in their lives. Our core services include a woman’s program, children’s program, transitional housing and support program and an outreach/legal advocacy program. All of these programs provide free and confidential support services, crisis intervention, crisis counselling, individual and group support, safety planning, referrals to community resources, advocacy around housing, legal and economic issues, and public education presentations to community partners on the issue of violence against women and children. Additionally, our Women’s Program is available to women and children seeking service on a 24 hour a day basis, 365 days per year.”

The organization is operated exclusively for religious charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501 c 3 of the United States Internal Revenue Code or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code and for such related purposes as may be permitted to religious charitable and educational corporations which are organized under Florida Not For Profit Corporation Code. This includes for such purposes to provide financial material moral and spiritual support primarily to the members of the Compassionate Franciscan Sisters of the Poor Inc. CFSOP and to other missionaries in their ministries which exist to defend provide for and promote the dignity of the poor the unborn and all human life and the administering of homes and centers to provide essential basic human care evangelization education and Christian works of mercy to abandoned and neglected women children the elderly street children and orphans and the destitute poor.

Zakat Foundation of America fosters charitable giving to alleviate the immediate needs of poor communities and to establish long-term development projects that ensure individual and community growth.