DePaul University Legal Empowerment Brigade June 2018 Panama


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Volunteer Activity Description

Start Date: Jun 16, 2018 12:00 AM
End Date: Jun 22, 2018 12:00 AM

Global Brigades offers 7-day Legal Empowerment Brigades throughout the year in Panama. Legal Empowerment Brigades primarily work with rural communities that are under-resourced and largely unaware of their own legal rights. Throughout the week, Legal Empowerment Brigades volunteers shadow Panamanian lawyers to provide pro-bono legal consulting to rural communities. A free legal clinic provides opportunities for volunteers to not only receive experience with Panamanian legal professionals but also experience first-hand the obstacles to justice and the culture of legal misinformation in rural communities. Volunteers also work to provide capacity building and education-based workshops on various legal concepts to empower communities through education. Additionally, volunteers continue shadowing Panamanian lawyers while they gather important information to initiate the process of resolving family legal cases, many of which have been stalled in Panama's legal system through institutional inefficiencies and the prohibitive high costs of legal services. Between brigades, Global Brigades’ in-country staff works to secure legal outcomes and provide follow-up to the community.

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Sarah Holloway

Passionate about: I am passionate about helping communities be able to self-sustain themselves through education and providing resources. I love building connections with people and working to provide them with the kno... [Read More]
Jane E Puls donated $200 2477 days ago
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Meridith Cassidy donated $615 2488 days ago
Hayden Smith donated $50 2490 days ago
Sarah Holloway donated $172 2492 days ago

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