Make a recurring donation of $55/month and help someone detained afford basic food and necessities they are being denied

Right now, over 1,000 people are detained at Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, NJ — our friends, neighbors, and community members who have been taken by ICE and face deportation. In detention, men and women often purchase their own toiletries due to the poor quality of what they are given, along with staples like rice, noodles and sausage to make up for the frequent inedible food served.

They also must fund communication accounts to make phone and video calls to family, lawyers and friends, providing a critical connection to the outside world and sometimes their only connection to their loved ones. These funds are often vital in providing some comfort in their lives.

The SOMA Mutual Aid Collective is working with other organizations on the ground at Delaney Hall to help fund commissary and communication accounts to those who need — and we urgently need your support.

We are trying to keep up with every request for commissary account funding at Delaney Hall as well as those who have been sent to other facilities throughout the country — and that list continues to grow.

If you can give more, please do — and if a monthly gift isn’t possible, one-time donations are deeply appreciated. Every dollar helps us show up for our neighbors with compassion and solidarity.

Together, we can provide compassion, stand against injustice, and strengthen community.

This project is hosted by the SOMA Mutual Aid Collective — a volunteer collaboration between SOMA Action, SOMA Justice, SOMA Community Cares and SOMA Shares. Funds raised will be used to fund individual detainee commissary and communication accounts up to $55.

Donations are made to SOMA Community Cares, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Commissary and Communication Fund