By Audrey Kanyesigye | Team Leader
Community Legal Volunteers (CLVS) are members of a given community that have been equipped with knowledge of the laws to help them understand better their societal injustices. How these injustices affect them, analyze the power dynamics that these injustices are rooted in and how they can engage communities to take action. They act to provide legal first aid to mediate, negotiate and organize the community helping to expand the legal justice ecosystem and increase access to justice for all.
This year, on 25th of November 2023, Just Like My Child Foundation Uganda joined the rest of the world in observing the international day for Elimination of Violence against Women. The focus for this year’s activism was through the lens of legal empowerment to protect communities against Gender Based Violence (GBV) and this is and shall be led by the community legal volunteers.
Through learning and leadershipCLVS in the different villages of Luwero took to community radios and held community dialogues with messages on how to fight GBV, encouraging the listeners and participants respectively to use all opportunities at their disposable such as open dialogues about violence they may be experiencing and how to leverage the different positive parenting approaches that could help to eliminate domestic violence.
Over 200 people (boys and girls, women and men) marched within the villages of Makonkonyigo and Kyampologoma of Kamira sub county in Luwero District with placards campaigning against putting an end to GBV. This campaign was organized by the 20 CLVS that serve over 10 villages in the area. They got moments to stop and talk to the villagers about the different ways violence manifests itself.
After this walk, the CLV continued to answer questions that arose from the residents that had gathered to dialogue with key leadership of the village, watch the different skits, listen to songs that boys and girls that organized to share their message on how GBV affects them.
We are very grateful to The Fund for Global Human Right's Legal Empowerment Fund and the Belizean Grove- Adventures for the Mind that financially supported this work.
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By Audrey Kanyesigye | Team Leader
By Audrey Kanyesigye | Team Leader
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