MIFUMI protects women by handholding and escorting women to the Police, local councillors, and to courts including clan courts, local council courts and courts of law. Women are also handheld during referrals to hospitals and clinics and other local authorities. The personalised advocacy ensures women are not intimidated by law enforcement officers and receive a positive experience and outcome of the case.

Handholding also serves to empower women to exercise the right to be free of violence. When Survivors are handheld to seek justice their Rights-defined selves emerge from the supportive encounters with police, magistrates and other judiciaries. Domestic violence survivors  come to take on rights consciousness. Survivors begin to define themselves as rights holders and to see their experience as human rights abuse and their stories as narratives of human rights abuse.