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"If you want to help someone, it comes naturally," she says. She meets the women in public places because she is afraid of being followed home, and usually helps the women financially for three to six months. Some women have been helped for a year. She also makes sure they get counseling. Currently, she said, she has only US$50 in the bank, so in October she is expanding her So-Me Designs that help fund No More Tears. So far, she has designed T-shirts (for US$24.99 each).

baby shirts (US$26) and hoodies (US$45). The new collection includes dresses (starting at US$150) and formal tops (starting at U$60). Each T-shirt has a design Ali created with the help of her graphic artist, who is also a woman she has helped. The most popular design is a clipboard with boxes to tick off either White, Black, Hispanic or Human.Ali says as a child she would cross out the "other" in such questionnaires and write the word "human" instead.

Edith McEacheron, 35, originally from Venezuela, was put into contact with Ali in March after she says her husband left her and their toddler son with no money and no way of getting any. She is now in the final stages of trying to get a work permit and is looking for a job. No More Tears pays for her room and her attorney.