Feb 2011

Official Launch coming soon!

We are pleased to announce our newest initiative Jade Lewis & Friends Inc: giving women prisoners a second chance at life. Today we are a not-for-profit charitable organisation after our recent application to the Australian Tax Office was successful. We are excited about the plans to expand this work in the prison and community. This also means that all monetary gifts over $2 to our organisation is a tax deduction for YOU!

At Jade Lewis & Friends Inc. we are committed to working with this marginalised group of women in our community who need all the help and support they can get to rebuild and restore their lives.

We love the quote from John F Kennedy when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country".
As part of our commitment to building drug free people and communities, our prison support work will help to build a better tomorrow for Australians. Our prison support programs so far include:

Step UP Pre Release Prison personal development program: a life skills program delivered weekly to women at Bandyup Women's Prison including fitness, character development, Christian faith, values and morals.

Blessings from the Heart provides women with essential items (toiletries, household items, clothing all donated from community groups and members) on their release from prison for a more comfortable transition back to community;

Grace Transitional Centre for Women a brand new project to establish a transition centre for women who are released from prison to reside in a 6-12 month fully supervised program to help them to rehabilitate and readjust to community through a leadership, life skills and education training program.

With loads of positive feedback and an overwhelmingly positive response from the community, we know we are just at the beginning of something amazing.

Here's what one of the Step UP participants wrote:

"You are my inspiration. Your life has had a great impact on mine. I thought there was no hope in this world. Since I met you, through the Step UP Prison Program, I thought if you could do it then not only me but everyone could do it (beat addiction, crime and violence). When you prayed for us and our children, I would like to thank you for that, because I haven't had anyone pray for me before. So that I am out of prison, I will always keep you in my heart".

We invite you to partner with us for the official launch. With The Hon Colin Barnett MLA Premier of WA, the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor, Lisa Scaffidi, Bandyup Women's Prison Superintendant Marie Chatwin and Dixie Marshall as our special guests you want to miss this event.

The aim for this event is to raise awareness of our project, inform the community of the financial and in-kind needs required to help more women. There will be plenty of opportunities for everyone to take part in our vision. We can't wait to see the response. So gather your table of 8 (or individual tickets) quick. Tickets selling fast.

If you are unable to attend this event, but would like to support our work, the pledge form above is available to be completed and sent back to us at

Jade Lewis & Friends Inc: PO Box 2178 Carlisle North Post Office WA 6101 or Fax: 08 9470 2657

We look forward to partnering with you at this exciting time. What we call the beginning of Jade Lewis & Friends Inc is actually the end; the end of broken lives, tragedy, addiction and hurt for many marginalised women. By the grace of God, this is what we exist to do; give women prisoners and their families a second chance at life.

You may be just one person in the world, but to one person you may mean the world. Your donation and support will be a lifeline to many. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts,