The shelter brings support to Arab women and their children who have been denied a place that they can call home. This place has been jeopardised by their own families and society, due to often distressing circumstances. The shelter is an extremely essential facility for these women and is considered to be crucial to rebuilding the lives of former residents of the shelter.

This shelter provides the occupants with a chance at restructuring their often broken lives, while offering them a place of refuge, security, and protection. In addition, the shelter offers mentoring and counselling for the women and their children focusing on the idea of empowerment so that they can one day confidentially become self-sufficient. The women and children who are staying at the shelter are provided special pre-development care, including courses in theatre, movement, music, art, and even tutoring.
In Arab society, it is not usually acceptable for women to live alone. Women who cannot return to their violent husbands or to their original families face negative social stigma for choosing an independent life. Also, most women who enter the shelter come from traditional backgrounds, have never worked, lack education, and have not managed household affairs. Thus, the Halfway House helps women gain the practical life skills they will need to live on their own. Equally, if not more importantly, the transition period helps women gain the strength to cope with the social pressures caused by their independence living situation.