The poor and marginalized communities including adolescent girls and young women, sex workers and people with disabilities, and key and priority population(s) are usually unable to access their basic legal rights such as accessing courts and social services, rampant unemployment and exercising their property rights. This can be attributed to lack of proper education.

As a result, the target groups are excluded from the legal discourse, denying them the opportunity to improve their lives and thereby hampering the country’s development.

WAYDS uses human rights and legal empowerment approach to increase access to justice to the target beneficiaries through paralegals work, engagement with registered Legal Aid Providers (LAPs), human rights protection organizations, other local CSOs at all levels.

Since its inception, the WAYDS has contributed immensely to the increase of legal aid services for the needy and vulnerable communities