In 2016, AdvocAid proudly celebrated 10 years of providing access to justice.

Founded by four volunteers in 2006, we have evolved to become a 36 (wo)man strong team delivering free legal aid and education programmes across ten of Sierra Leone’s major towns.

Since 2006, AdvocAid has provided critical legal assistance to 3,634 women – that’s more than one woman supported every day for the past 10 years!*

These women would have had no representation or access to legal education without our help. Some would have remained on death row as innocent women. Read here about the endemic issues facing women in Sierra Leone.

With your support, we celebrated our achievements throughout 2016 and deliver delivered a number of legacy projects in Sierra Leone. These included:

– Celebration events in a number of Correctional Centre’s – these involved distributing welfare items to the women, and bringing music and dancing within the prison walls. This will help helped to make these women feel valuable, important, and part of the AdvocAid fambul.

– Celebrations with the women from our “Go Bifo” ex-inmate group, giving these women hope that there is life after prison.

– A Gala Fundraising Dinner in Freetown and London.

– The production of a new short video depicting AdvocAid’s work, including our achievements over the past 10 years, how we work and stories from some of the women we have worked with.

– A Thanksgiving service at a Freetown Church with ex-inmates and AdvocAid staff.

Throughout the year we celebrated AdvocAid’s incredible staff, leadership, and volunteers, going back through the archives of clients supported to tell their stories, and celebrated all that we’ve achieved to educate, empower, and provide access to justice for women and girls in Sierra Leone.

Thank you for donating to our work today.

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*This figure covers our legal aid alone – in addition, we have assisted thousands more women with educational outreach programmes, welfare packages, and post-detention support.