COLLABORATORS

ZENITH

Zenith Society for Socio Legal Empowerment is a youth-led organisation based in Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh, working on grassroots and sociolegal empowerment for marginalised communities, rural and urban youth. It is a registered society under the Madhya Pradesh Societies Registration Act, 1973.

Zenith provides perspectives resources, and training of skills and tools of the law to tribal, Dalit and marginalised communities to empower them to identify and voice their struggles so they can work towards change for a more just and dignified life for themselves. It works with the community in order to build their capacity in understanding their legal rights, defining their ideas of change, and taking appropriate measures in order to live a more just and dignified life.

Their work includes conducting educational training programmes in villages with panchayats and communities to build social movements for effective change making. They have begun an Access to Justice programme in Madhya Pradesh since 2018. Their most central work is to create a scalable model of legal clinics for communities, by engaging law students from legal aid cells as volunteers to decode local issues and communicate with stakeholders and communities to ensure rights are honoured.

You can learn more about Zenith by clicking on this link.

LAW FOUNDATION

LAW foundation is a not-for-profit organization working with marginalized custodial population and historically disadvantaged communities promoting access to socio-legal aid services. Along with the provision of socio-legal aid, the organization also focuses on the 3Rs; Rehabilitation, Reformation & Reintegration of inmates. Law Foundation is a registered organization under the Indian Trusts Act, 1882.

In 2016, Mr. Praveen Kumar initiated socio-legal aid services in Bihar under the Criminal Justice Fellowship Program of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. In the course of his fellowship, he intervened in several prisons and addressed issues of socio-legal aid.

After a sustained endeavor of three years of extending socio-legal aid services to the custodial population lodged in various jails in Bihar, he met Santosh Kumar and Shubhendu Shekhar during his fellowship journey. They all encountered several issues pertaining to the disadvantaged custodial population. Thus, they registered LAW Foundation as a trust in 2019 whose core work revolves around the areas of socio-legal aid services, networking, training, research, and documentation, besides advocacy of custodial, institutional, legal, and constitutional rights of the custodial population. It is also focused on the rehabilitation and re-integration of socioeconomically marginalized and vulnerable individuals and groups.

You can learn more about LAW Foundation by clicking on this link.