society that strives to empower women and improve their status in Africa. Since it's inception in 1990, the network has grown to encompass 31 countries, over 500 organizations and over 1200 individual members. In order to effectively co-ordinate and manage these numbers, several sub-regional offices has since been established in Southern, Eastern and Western Africa. West Africa's sub-regional office, located in Lomo, Togo oversees 8 networks including: Ghana, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Conakry, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo. At the national and international levels, the WiLDAF network lobbies for laws that promote women's rights. At the local level, WiLDAF Ghana, offers free legal counseling as well as training legal literacy to volunteers in Ghana's Central and Eastern regions.Having identified ignorance as one of the factors that hinder the development of women, WiLDAF-Ghana has embarked on a rights awareness programme in the country to address some of the issues. WiLDAF’s key area of work can simply be described as awareness creation and protection of the rights of women in Ghana. Currently in Ghana, there are a handful of organisations that are carrying out legal education. No organisation, however, is doing the kind of paralegal training that WiLDAF is engaged in. The few legal education programmes that exist do not reach every part of the country; the WiLDAF programme, by training people from the various districts in the regions, is able to extend its coverage to many more people. So far, of the nine regions within Ghana in which the training has been completed, nearly 80% of the districts have been covered.