Founded in July 2018 at the height of the separated children crisis, Project Lifeline is dedicated to helping undocumented immigrant children secure legal status through innovative projects, strategic collaborations and targeted advocacy. Praxis is Project Lifeline’s fiscal sponsor providing organizational guidance as well as key financial and data management services.
Co-founders Hope Frye, an immigration and human rights lawyer and longtime advocate for immigrant children, and Dr. Dona Kim Murphey, a neurologist and community activist, launched Project Lifeline in response to family separation and because of the inhumane conditions that Hope witnessed firsthand on visits to detention facilities holding immigrant children.
Project Lifeline has created a unique on-line library, the Predicate Order Resource Center. This repository of curated material supports the national immigration bar in the representation of undocumented children applying for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS). SIJS is a pathway to citizenship for neglected, abused or abandoned immigrant children. This project is crucial to increasing the number of children who can obtain legal status and live full lives in America free from the fear of detention and deportation. A distinguished Board of Advisors supports this innovative project.
Hope previously worked with The Praxis Group when she created and ran The Saidia Fund which was focused on providing scholarships for young girls in Uganda’s Mbarara region to attend private schools – a key route on the pathway out of poverty. Praxis served as the project’s fiscal sponsor and provided organizational and technical support.
Check out Project Lifeline’s website at www.ProjectLifeline.us