Okay, so I am involved in social work-type stuff, and I got a call today from a Pakistani lady who is
-7 months pregnant
-has one 6 year old child
-husband is not home - she said to me he left her because he couldn’t handle having another kid
-has little money to make this next month’s rent
-is looking for employment, but is not qualified to do much education-wise, and she’s not in such a great physical condition either to do what work she is able to do (basically manual labor).
-was employed by a dry cleaner guy (desi), whom she refers to as “mullah” - she claims he didnt let her use the bathroom and restricted her a lot - and also was rude when he would speak to her. So she left.
-she’s trying to find people who will let her be their maid.
Okay, so naturally, I got a bit emotional about this - I haven’t actually dealt with these sort of cases in the community. Incidentally she lives near the masjid I go to - so I referred her to try that masjid to get some monetary help. I also gave her whatever resources I had from the place I work at. I also gave her some names of people to speak to at the masjid that do a lot of community service for the muslim population. She claims she doesn’t know any of these people. So when she asked how she’ll recognize any of the, me being the smartarse I am said that I’ll be there and that she can look for me, and I’ll introduce her to these people.
So I get home and I tell my 'rents about it. They make some calls to their friends who live in the area - we know a guy who runs a dry cleaning place in her area, so we called his family. He says he knows them, and that the couple has been fighting for a while now.
His story: 
-husband did not run away, but was asked to leave by the wife - she threatened to call the cops on him
-she’s “gandhi” - i.e. she doesn’t clean well and her apartment is always a mess. Like I mean, dudes, I’ve been to some lower income homes when doing social work-type activities - and we’re talking flies all over the place, septic tanks that don’t work - garbage lying around that isn’t taken out regularly - generally very unhygeinic practices.
-this is his second wife - like literally registered by the USA - and he’s got another wife in Pakistan. He married the second time because he didn’t want to cheat on his first wife, and he wanted to be able to satisfy himself in a “halaal” way.
-they argue all the time, and this family friend of ours has sat down with them numerous times to get them to resolve their issues.
-she’s very rude and uncouth, and that the husband is bezaar and doesn’t know what to do anymore with her.
Now, given this new information I have of her, and given the fact that I’m trying to be objective here, and given the warnings I’ve gotten from my family friends who have told me that they’ve helped numerous people in such situations and they found out later they were all scams to get money…
I don’t really know what to do anymore. And I don’t want many people getting up in this lady’s business, because she called my workplace and I really should be keeping what she has said to me in confidence…although I already crossed that line earlier today. 
It looks like things go a lot deeper than I thought, and now I don’t know if I should really help out as much, because it looks like she has the ability to help herself out. I am going to show up at the masjid, because I did ask her to meet me there so I can talk to her in person. I don’t know if she’ll show up, and I dont know what I really should offer her in terms of services…
I don’t know if it would be okay to provide her some finances with which she can pay her bills. I don’t know if I should ask my family friends not to meddle in the situation, since things can get out of hand really easily.
But at the same time, I want her to have a safe delivery as well. I want to make sure she’s eating the right things, and that she knows where to go for her delivery.
Ackh - help - tell me some points that I may not be seeing right now being inside the situation that I am?
