- Program Civil Society
- Program Area Increasing Access to Justice
- Grant Amount $100,000
- Grant Period January 1, 2015–December 31, 2016
- Location Johannesburg, South Africa
- Geographic Focus South Africa
About this grant
ProBono.Org is a public interest legal clearinghouse that was established in 2006 to encourage legal professionals to provide free legal services to poor and vulnerable people in South Africa. This project was initiated in 2010 to facilitate relationships between community advice offices and attorneys in small towns and rural areas so that poor people can access free legal services close to where they live. The project is currently implemented in the Limpopo, Northwest, and Gauteng provinces. Past support enabled the grantee to recruit attorneys in small and rural towns to participate in this project, offer training and support to paralegals in community advice offices, and conduct human rights awareness campaigns in collaboration with community advice offices. This grant will support the grantee to continue to recruit attorneys in small towns and pair them with advice offices to enable them to help paralegals in advice offices solve difficult cases.