Who are we?

The Nile offers its residents a safe place to reside – away from potential domestic abuse, poverty, emotionally charged relationships, potential malnutrition and other factors that are so detrimental during a child’s development. 

While at the Nile, residents go through a program focusing on growth in three areas of enrichment – 1)spiritual, 2) personal and 3) professional.  As a family-oriented facility, our residents thrive on the personal involvement and interaction with advisors, mentors, counselors, teachers, staf

f and other residents.

In 2001 work began to make possible the opening of the Nile women’s shelter/maternity home. In January of 2003, the doors opened in our current facility, a 6000 sq. ft. residence located in Versailles, Kentucky.  Since opening we have served women from the central Kentucky area and as far away as the east and south coasts of the United States. 

The Nile serves women that find themselves in need of refuge in a time of crisis. While providing basic needs to these women, the Nile also provides parental training, medical support, mental health counseling and other core life application skills training.  After the birth of their child these mothers are welcomed back to the Nile if they have no other place to go.  Then we work toward their educational requirements for college then toward transitional housing to the Virginia Place or onto the workforce.  

Our goal is to return to society a self sufficient, emotionally stable, educated woman that develops into a productive citizen. Our work impacts not only the life of the mother, but also the lives of generations of men and women beyond the initial Nile resident.

The Nile exists to serve as a physical and spiritual lifeline for the expectant mother in crisis and her unborn child.

“I was hungry, and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you game Me drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; I was naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me..”   ~ Matthew 25:35-36