Erin Rodes

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End Date: Jun 22, 2018 12:00 AM
Volunteer Activity Message

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.

Volunteer Goals

Program Goal: $990.00 / Airfare Goal: $680.00

Jennifer h rodes donated $920

Jun 04, 2018 09:52 PM

jennifer rodes donated $500

May 02, 2018 12:14 AM

jennifer rodes donated $250

Mar 27, 2018 06:20 PM

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