UTG-FLAA exposes students to community-based paralegals

The event sees to build societies sustainability of legal aid and legal empowerments in The Gambia.

Thomas Fuad Tourary, president of The University of The Gambia Faculty of Law Alumni Association (UTG-FLAA), who doubles as executive director of West Africa Institute for Legal Aid (WAILA), explained that the main objective of the project is to increase the coverage and sustainability of legal aid services through legal empowerment and community-based paralegal programmes as powerful tools of justice delivery and ensuring access to justice for all in The Gambia.

 The exercise, he added, is a project initiated in 2015 were different partners came on board including the minister of Justice and UNDP and other partners.

 “This training is designed to create awareness for people to know where to get information and also to address their basic legal services.” he added.