Night Fishing on Lake Victoria
On the lake at night with lantern trap fishermen off in the distance – Photos by Ian MacLellan Located on the shores of Lake Victoria, Kisumu is a city known for its fish. Lake Victoria is cool and...
Photographs from the First Few Weeks with the JusticeMakers Project at CLEAR Kisumu
I have been working in Kisumu, Kenya with CLEAR(Christian Legal Education Aid and Research)-Kisumu, a JusticeMaker project, for three weeks now. I have been waiting patiently for excellent internet so that I can upload...
Radio Talk Show Educates Public on Kenyan Constitutional Review
Monday nights at 9:30, CLEAR staff Dennis Okore and advocate Peter Onyango are on air hosting a legal affairs talk show on Radio Nam Lolwe 97.3 FM Kisumu. Dennis, a communications intern, has been...
Kenya JusticeMaker Represents Young Girl in Defilement Case
Tuesday morning was an early start for CLEAR advocate Peter Onyango who set out for Oyugis, a small town south of Kisumu to represent a nine year-old girl in a defilement case referred to...
Kenya JusticeMaker Provides Legal Aid to Inmates at Kodiaga Prison
Dedicated CLEAR staff Dennis Okore and advocate Peter Onyango braved the afternoon heat last Friday as they waited for permission to enter Kodiaga prison, Kisumu where CLEAR is providing free legal aid to prisoners. CLEAR has been visiting Kodiaga prison each...
An update from our Kenyan JusticeMaker fellow, Joy Mdivo
Hey everyone, I have been pretty busy for a while, hence my silence, but I assure you, I shall try and be more communicative in the future. I have just finished a tour of...
2008 JusticeMaker fellow Joy Masinde featured in Kenyan newspaper
Prior to our 2008 JusticeMakers competition, Kenyan newspaper the Daily Nation published an article about one of our competition winners, Kenyan Magistrate Joy Masinde. The article, titled “She’s-Got-It Brenda Masinde”, provides terrific insight into Joy’s life prior to becoming...
Kenyan JusticeMaker delivers legal assistance to women prisoners
Last Thursday, Joy and the CLEAR team made one of their weekly visits to Lang’ata Women’s Prison in Nairobi. Many of these women prisoners are too poor to afford legal representation and not informed on their legal rights. They...