Housing

MUSLIMAT AL-NISAA SHELTER HOUSING PROJECT I. Purpose: To provide a home to homeless Muslim women and children and Muslim women victims of Domestic Violence in a residential setting, within an established Muslim community. II. Summary: Facility houses, in compliance with multi-family residential zoning and Muslimat Al-Nisaa established housing guidelines, 15 – 25 homeless Muslim women ...
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Occupation

I. Purpose: To comprehensively review the interaction between barriers to work and self-sufficiency, with a focus on the needs of the homeless.  To provide assess to occupational opportunities through advocacy, education and training, and to a wide range of resources to assist residents in the process of self-help. II. History: Muslimat Al-Nisaa, established in 1987, ...
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Medical

I. Purpose: To provide free medical care for the uninsured, the undocumented, the poor, and the special needs population, with a focus on the needs of the homeless. II. History: Muslimat Al-Nisaa, health & social services center has been providing pathways to health services through volunteers and active interventions in community health resources since 1987. ...
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Education

I. Purpose: Muslimat Al-Nisaa is a place for women to recover and rebuild their lives in the wake of homelessness, and/or domestic of violence. Our program is a residential one, where women are allowed to stay for a duration of time based on each individual’s healing and self-sufficiency process. We provide each client with an ...
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Our Mission

Muslimat Al-Nisaa Home Center was designed to address the problem of homelessness within the Muslim community.  The need for shelter is a basic human need.  Muslimat Al Nisaa Home Center seeks to provide shelter, skills training, medical care, employment assistance, and counseling to foster economic self-reliance in its participants. Participants are encouraged to engage in ...
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Latest News

  • Wednesday December 14, 2011
    Muslimat Al-Nisaa NPR Feature
    As families come together over the holidays, the victims of domestic abuse are often sequestered in shelters — a situation that's especially difficult for Muslim women, because few facilities meet their cultural and religious needs......

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  • Wednesday December 14, 2011
    New Shelter Opens in Baltimore
    An idea, which was originally born of necessity almost five years ago, has now become a reality. She traveled throughout the Masajid, Islamic Centers, and Muslim organizations in the tri-state ...

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