Free Legal Aid Clinic, Bangladesh, Euro 7000

Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) has been giving free Legal aid to the poor people of Bangladesh for many years. From mediating in domestic issues to filing and defending land rights cases before the High Court. The cases range from divorce cases, to disputes over salaries, from working conditions to rights over property. To be as accessible as possible to the people they run three legal aid centers or clinics as they call them, right in the middle of low-income areas of Dhaka.

At these centres BLAST organizes trainings for the people instructing them about their legal rights and also offers mediation for whoever needs it. Only when after the mediation, the conflict still persists, the parties will need to go to the more sophisticated BLAST offices to file their cases. Women, who usually wouldn’t dare to approach a lawyer, feel comfortable to enter these clinics to ask for help. The Gopibag clinic is one of these centres and has helped many people in the area.

BLAST is well respected and has close ties with the Bar Associations and government agencies throughout the country. Due to the recession the funds BLAST usually received from its large donors have seriously diminished. And, although funds from new large donors have been confirmed, BLAST would need immediate financial relief to bridge the period until all necessary bureaucratic requirements have been met. To keep one clinic running for a year, BLAST, needs around Euro 7000,- to pay for the rent, utilities, office equipment and salaries for the staff.

Total € 7000,-- 

adopted by the general fund of Moments of Joy

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