About the Foundation

Our mission

Advancing access to justice, protecting rights, and defending human dignity.

Who we are

The Foundation is established exclusively as a non-profit, non-political, non-partisan, public-benefit organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights, legal empowerment, advocacy, humanitarian assistance, peacebuilding, civic education, community development, and social welfare. In furtherance of these purposes, the Foundation shall provide legal information, legal education, legal counselling, mediation, referral services, humanitarian interventions, advocacy, public awareness, and other lawful charitable services for the protection, empowerment, and advancement of vulnerable persons and communities.

Aims and objectives

• Promote legal awareness, legal literacy, legal empowerment, legal counselling, mediation, referral services, and other lawful support services for indigent, vulnerable, marginalized, and underserved persons and communities.
• Promote, protect, and advance human rights, fundamental freedoms, human dignity, equality, social inclusion, and responsible citizenship in accordance with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and other applicable laws.
• Facilitate access to legal information, legal counselling, mediation, referral services, and pro bono legal assistance through collaboration with qualified legal practitioners, the Legal Aid Council, the Nigerian Bar Association, MULAN, and other relevant institutions, with the aim of improving access to justice for vulnerable persons.
• Support and advocate for the welfare, protection, inclusion, and empowerment of women, children, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities, internally displaced persons, refugees, victims of abuse, survivors of violence, and other vulnerable groups without discrimination.
• Promote civic education, constitutional awareness, voter education, public enlightenment, and community awareness programmes aimed at improving knowledge of legal rights, civic responsibilities, democratic values, and peaceful dispute resolution.
• Promote peacebuilding, conflict prevention, social cohesion, reconciliation, mediation, conciliation, negotiation, arbitration, and other lawful alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.
• Provide humanitarian assistance, emergency relief, welfare interventions, psychosocial support, rehabilitation services, and appropriate referral services to persons affected by poverty, conflict, violence, abuse, displacement, disasters, or other humanitarian crises.
• Organize and support workshops, seminars, conferences, trainings, advocacy campaigns, public dialogues, legal awareness programmes, community outreach initiatives, and capacity-building activities in furtherance of the Foundation's objectives.
• Collaborate and partner with government agencies, judicial institutions, law enforcement agencies, legal practitioners, traditional and religious institutions, educational institutions, civil society organizations, development partners, donor agencies, professional bodies, the media, and other relevant stakeholders in carrying out the Foundation's programmes.
• Establish and operate legal empowerment centres, community resource centres, help desks, humanitarian support programmes, community empowerment initiatives, and other lawful charitable projects for the benefit of the public.
• Solicit, receive, manage, invest, and apply grants, donations, gifts, endowments, subscriptions, contributions, and other lawful resources solely for the attainment of the Foundation's charitable and non-profit objectives.
• Build partnerships, alliances, coalitions, and networks at the local, national, regional, and international levels with organizations and institutions whose objectives are consistent with those of the Foundation.
• Establish and maintain offices, branches, community support centres, resource centres, and other lawful facilities necessary for the effective implementation of the Foundation's programmes and activities.
• Undertake any other lawful charitable, humanitarian, educational, advocacy, developmental, community empowerment, or public-benefit activities that are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the Foundation's aims and objectives.

Our principles

• Non-profit and for public benefit

  All resources are applied solely to the Foundation's charitable and non-profit objectives.

• Non-political and non-partisan

  The Foundation serves the public without political or partisan affiliation.

• Without discrimination

  Support is provided to vulnerable persons and groups without discrimination.

• Within the law

  Rights are promoted in accordance with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and other applicable laws.