Moving from the darkness of drug addiction to a life of self-respect and stability can be a difficult journey. Few people are able to make the trip alone. The Rebecca Project for Human Rights offers a helping hand to low-income, Washington area women who are struggling with the intersecting issues of poverty, substance abuse, the criminal justice system, and access to family-oriented treatment. The organization is dedicated to giving a local and national voice to those women - mostly single mothers in recovery, many in prison. The Rebecca Project advocates the social, emotional, and economic needs of these families.

A grant from The Women’s Foundation helped the Rebecca Project support its Families in Treatment Not Jails campaign, which seeks to create alternatives to incarceration for mothers suffering from the disease of addiction. Malika Saada Saar, executive director of The Rebecca Project says, “It is an honor to be funded by a community of women invested in the well-being, transformation, and power of low-income mothers recovering from substance abuse. We stand on the shoulders of The Women’s Foundation, which has made The Rebecca Project for Human Rights a better and stronger organization for the needs of low-income families here in the District and nationally.”