Prison Support Program
Muslim chaplains are spiritual caregivers and representatives of our beautiful deen. WVMA helps provide not just financial help through donations to the program, but in the sustainability of prison support through education, advocacy, and collegiality to support this blessed cause and the care of those we have the opportunity to serve.
Donation Supplies List
Click the images below to purchase books and supplies to give to inmates.
Please have the supplies delivered to 16769 Farley Rd. Los Gatos CA 95032
The Fountain Magazine
Very popular in correctional facilities that people love to read even the old/back issues. From a Turkish company and covers a variety of social topics.
Books
Prayer Rugs
We cut it ourselves once it arrives. You can buy a 20 yard cut which gives you a discount also. 20 yards lasts us for a few months. The Correctional System only allows this due to security reasons.
Tasbih (only bracelets allowed)
Click here to Purchase
Kufi (only white colored allowed)
Click here to Purchase
Correctional Facilities being Served:
Santa Clara County:
- Elmwood Correctional Facility, Milpitas: 701 S Abel St, Milpitas, CA 95035
- Main Jail, Downtown San Jose: 150 W Hedding St, San Jose, CA 95110
- Juvenile Hall, Downtown San Jose: 840 Guadalupe Pkwy, San Jose, CA 95110
Santa Cruz County:
- Only Online Weekly Video calls with IPs:
- We email to a special email address and request who we want to meet (info provided by the CIC Chaplaincy team on a weekly basis). Meeting is on Mondays, starting at 1pm (20 minutes each IP)
- b- We receive MS TEAMS Meeting Invite on Monday morning, from Santa Cruz Sheriff department
For more details, please see this pdf:
Description of the volunteer opportunities:
- Please see above mentioned pdf for more details –
- On your own time (weekdays, weekends, during visiting hours mentioned in the pdf), you can visit the IPs (as per your planned weekly meetings – 1:1 IPs’ meeting list shared by Br. Mohammad Shabbir with all volunteers on Thursday mornings). Each Volunteers list of IPs is a working copy and shared on a Google Drive with each Volunteer.
- Besides 1:1 meeting with IPs, we lead Friday prayer in Main Jail on three different floors, starting at 1pm until 3pm. A weekly rotation is setup between a couple of Volunteers to help with the Friday Prayer leading. New Volunteers are always welcome to be part of that rotation.
- For Santa Cruz county and Santa Clara Juvenile Halls, it is only cleared and allowed for 2 Volunteers currently. More to be requested in future. The clearance process is a bit tedious and lengthy for these facilities.
How to become a Volunteer Chaplain:
- Please see above mentioned pdf for more details –
- It is a simple 3-step process:
- Provide your full name and email to Br. Mohammad Shabbir email at [email protected]
- Fill a provided form to get your 1-month temporary county clearance
- Plan, contact and shadow Br. Shabbir (volunteer brothers) or Sister Fareeda (volunteer sisters), and visit correctional facilities
Note: Once you are comfortable with the initial visits then you can apply 2-year clearance process.
