Since 2018, we have dedicated our skills to providing quality legal representation to indigent pre-trial detainees. This includes supporting released inmates through initiatives that would predominantly give them a great start at life after incarceration. Notwithstanding the limited resources, our projects were largely coordinated by leveraging our active volunteer base, collaborations with local and international partners, and the organization’s founder’s professional network to achieve the organization’s objectives. Over 7,000 pre-trial detainees have benefited from the organization’s interventions in the past 5 years.

Our story commenced as far back as 1998 when our founder experienced the ills perpetrated by the justice system on low-income individuals during her father’s wrongful detention without trial.

Upon becoming a lawyer, our founder worked on some research projects and handled some criminal cases, which made her mobilize a movement of active lawyers and citizens who are acting to close the justice gap.

Learning from doing access to justice and representing about 400 pre-trial detainees in the past 4 years informed our new strategic direction, which emphasizes a system change approach. 

We find that true change will only come when we utilize a multi-pronged approach to address the justice inequalities that we have identified. Currently, our programs and campaigns incorporate right-holders, duty-bearers, and other stakeholders in the justice system.