✦ Save the date Annual Fundraiser Gala · La Jolla Country Club · Friday, October 9, 2026
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Lives Transformed · Est. 2024

What love looks like,
up close.

Lives Transformed is a faith-inspired nonprofit based in La Jolla, California bringing healing, hope and opportunity to the most marginalized people of Nigeria. We provide emergency relief then move to sustainability then empowerment, one life at a time.

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Lives Transformed team in Plateau State with children from the village where the new safe house is opening.
Plateau State · 2025
Since we began —
Year One · 2024–2025
136
girls in the skills center, rescued from trafficking
3,650
patients seen through medical outreach
100
rural pastors sustained in their ministry
350
chicks raised — food security and income for widows

Lives Transformed was founded by a handful of people in San Diego who could not, in good conscience, look away from the sex-trafficked, the poor, the starving and the sick in Nigeria — and who decided, together, to do something small and steady about it.

We provide a safe house and skill center for survivors of sex trafficking — a place to heal, grow, and build a vocation. We sustain rural pastors whose ministries are the only social fabric for miles. We send doctors where there are none. We build chicken coops and farms with widows so that food, and dignity, can return to a home. We choose the same villages and we keep coming back.

What you give is small enough to be personal — and large enough to change a life. We are honored you are here.

— Noelle & the team Founder, La Jolla · with the team in Plateau State
The work

Six things we do, and keep doing.

  1. 01
    Rescue & restore
    A safe house for girls leaving trafficking and gender-based violence, with daily meals, on-site therapy, and a path to vocation.
    Active
  2. 02
    Skills centers for survivors
    Hair braiding, garment sewing, and small-business training so the women who pass through our doors leave with a livelihood, not a referral.
    136 enrolled
  3. 03
    Medical missions
    We deploy doctors, nurses, and supplies into villages with no clinic for thirty miles in any direction. 3,650 patients seen in Year One.
    Quarterly
  4. 04
    Agriculture for widows
    Chicken coops, kitchen farms, and seed grants — economic empowerment in the form most likely to take root.
    100 households
  5. 05
    Pastoral sustainment
    $50 a month keeps a rural pastor in his community, anchoring a village that would otherwise empty toward the city.
    100 pastors
  6. 06
    Dignity for schoolgirls
    Menstrual health supplies and a small change of clothing — the difference, often, between staying in school and leaving for good.
    Ongoing
From the field
“I came here with nothing. I am leaving with a trade, a small room of my own, and the feeling — for the first time — that I am someone's daughter.”
— Blessing, age 17
Graduate, Skills Center · Class of 2025 · name changed
A young woman at a sewing machine in the Lives Transformed skills center in Nigeria.
The photo of the girl has been generated with AI to protect her identity.
Year One

What your generosity made possible.

A handful of small things, each of which is making a daily difference somewhere we cannot easily reach.

A medical mission in progress beneath a covered porch, mothers and children waiting to be seen.
No. 01

A clinic, beneath an awning.

Three thousand six hundred and fifty patients seen in Year One — most of them having walked miles in their best clothes, with their children on their back, to be there.

Girls baking together at the Lives Transformed skills center in Nigeria.
The photo of the girls has been generated with AI to protect their identities.
No. 02

A trade, a kitchen, a future.

At the skills center, women who arrived with nothing leave with a livelihood — and the steady company of other women walking the same road home.

Widows in colorful traditional dress eating together at a community distribution day.
No. 03

A meal, in good company.

Distribution days double as community days. Widows we serve cook, eat, and trade what they have grown — together. A meal that lasts well past the meal itself.

Two small children asleep on the red earth beneath plastic chairs at a medical mission.
No. 04

Why we did not look away.

Two children, asleep at a medical mission, having walked through the jungle in their mothers' arms. We came to make the next walk shorter — and we have been walking with them since.

Looking ahead

In the next twelve months, with your help —

i.Place 62 more girls who were previously trafficked through our skill center then launch them into their own businesses.
ii.Expand agricultural projects.
iii.Purchase motorcycles for missionaries on the village circuits.
iv.Launch additional medical outreaches.
v.Provide cooking supplies, stipend and garment for widows.
vi.Outfit rural church congregations with instruments.
An evening for the work

Annual Fundraiser Gala · La Jolla Country Club.

When
Friday, October 9, 2026 · 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Where
La Jolla Country Club · 7301 High Avenue, La Jolla CA 92037
The night
Hors d'œuvres, wine, and a silent auction in the company of the people doing the work.
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Field notes, once a month.

A short letter from Nigeria — who arrived, what changed, what we are praying for. No fundraising hooks.