The primary goal of LAP is to have sustainable legal education and rights awareness within the various communities in the Volta and Western Regions.
The specific objectives are:

• To provide training for legal literacy volunteers (LLVs)
• To provide back-up support to the educational activities of the LLVs
• To offer legal counseling services to needy women and men
• To undertake research and gather data which could be used in developing training material

WiLDAF’s key area of work can simply be described as awareness creation and protection of the rights of women in Ghana.

In the twelve years of our existence, WiLDAF has successfully established three offices: in Accra, Takoradi, and Ho. The Takoradi and Ho offices are primarily responsible for the Legal Awareness Programmes.

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.

Currently in Ghana, there are a handful of organisations that are carrying out legal education. The most successful of these programmes is the FIDA Legal Aid Services, which combines legal education and legal aid. 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 in which the training has been completed, nearly 80% of the districts have been covered.

The primary goal of LAP is to have a sustainable legal education and rights awareness within the various communities in the Western and Volta regions.

Activities

• Training of LLVs
• Legal Aid and counselling
• Legal Education
• Research
• Networking
• Collaboration with other NGOs