Our Events

Our most recent Texas event:
Annual Prison Dawa and ReEntry Symposium was held on Saturday, Jan 25th, 2020.
It was held at Turquoise (Turkish) Center, located at 9301 W. Bellfort Ave, Houston TX 77031 from 8.30 am to 1.30 pm - (Great Turkish style Breakfast and Mediterranean lunch were served).
There was participation from Prison & Re-Entry Volunteers, and speakers from all over Texas. Among great speakers and workers for this project, Br (Shaikh) Rami Nsour (Founding Director of Tayaba Foundation, flew in from Union City California and shared his rich experience of developing a course of study for prisoners nationwide. Here is his website for more information: https://www.taybafoundation.org
More details of this annual event will follow.

This is sample of once a month drive towards prisons along with another volunteer (budy) - Start from 8 minutes to make it shorter.

Once you have watched this video below, you will see three other on my personal channel (some shorter) to watch, if you like.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) Volunteer Application Link

Here is the link for Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ)Volunteer Application: https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/documents/Volunteer_Application_English.pdf

Here is their Website for more information:

https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/divisions/rpd/volunteer.html

Or :

https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us

Copy paste these links and open in a new browser, if you cannot access by clicking on these from here.

Training / Orientation & Certification

Once you have received an email of approval (which normally is less than two weeks), send us copy of that email along with copy of your Driver's License via email of Coordinator below, and look for instructions to get registered for your very first Training + Orientation which is five hour long and is normally scheduled for a Saturday.

go to: https://www.tdcj.texas.gov and look for

information on "Training schedule by the city" or , contact Volunteer Services at (936) 437-3026.

Once you have completed this Training/ Orientation & Certification reach out to one of the contacts below to match you with someone you will be working with who will registered you with Chaplains of Texas Prisons so that your name will be entered on their list of approved visiting volunteers list / roster..

Volunteer communication area

We will be updating this area later for the latest news which volunteers can use. We will also provide a volunteer report form link here so that volunteer can download and send report after each visit so that we can compile data which will be useful as to what is needed and who is going in which unit (solo or in pair).

Contact following persons via email: -

1- Dr Laeeq Khan - Founder - lakhanusa@gmail.com

2 - Yusef (Joseph) Baker - State Dawa Volunteer Coordinator -email: darusyusef@gmail.com - Cell 409-617-3640

3. Br Abdul Kader - Co-Chairman - abdul_bhegani@yahoo.com

4- Br Ahmed Gunduz - Turkish Prison Dawa - gahmet9@gmail.com

5 - Aziz Soomro - Coordinator Assistant- texasprisondawa@gmail.com (please suggest improving this Website also via this email)

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