The Hirsh Law Office is proud to be a founding member of the Uganda Legal Project. In addition, our principal Michael Hirsh, is the Director for North America.
The Uganda Legal Project is an active outreach of the Kitega Community Center based in Kampala, Uganda, providing much needed legal services to the disadvantages, downtrodden, and the vulnerable. The Kitega Community Center is comprised of local Ugandans helping members of their community.
Many of the Project’s clients are widows fighting interlopers attempting to evict these women from their own property. Others are individuals who are languishing in an Ugandan jail – the best of which are worse than the worst US jail – often for mere technicalities. The cost of legal assistance in Uganda a just a fraction of the cost of retaining a lawyer in America; making your donation, even a small one, can provide immeasurable help for those most in need.
The Center’s Director David Klemme sums it up this way:
“With the integration of the legal aid ministry in its activities, the approach of the Centre has since changed from a mere giving of alms to vulnerable and marginalised persons to actually empowering them through access to justice systems with the view of helping them achieve their full potential by overcoming their social and economic stiflers.
Over the past 18 months, Kitega Community Centre has reached out to communities with the proactive approach of empowering the marginalised through legal aid. Regulation 21 of the Advocates (Legal Aid to Indigent Persons), 2007 provides for the forms of legal aid to include Representation in courts of law, mediation, Conciliation, Legal Advice and counseling
Through the legal representations for bail, the successful sessions of conciliation, the counseling and the meditations we are convinced that legal aid is one of the most potent tools of bridging the gaps that hinder the marginalized from achieving their full potential.
85% of the population is termed indigent because they are unable to meet costs of professional legal services. This raises the fear of widening the scope of marginalized persons if nothing is done about it. The legal aid has the potential to empower more communities. Together, let’s make it happen.”
To see what you can do to help in this exciting opportunity, email Michael Hirsh directly at Hirshlaw@Outlook.com. Learn how you as an individual or as a company can directly help change the lives of others around the world.