The Kenna Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation, established for the purpose of promoting social justice and economic empowerment in Nigeria.
About Kenna Foundation
The Kenna Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation, established for the purpose of promoting social justice and economic empowerment in Nigeria. The Foundation aims among others, to encourage the provision of pro-bono legal services to vulnerable and less privileged members of society who are ordinarily unable to access quality legal services. To achieve this, the Foundation has created a fund to finance its objectives.
The Foundation targets the provision of pro-bono legal services in areas such as rape/ defilement, police brutality/ extra judicial killings, prison decongestion particularly for inmates awaiting trial, widows’ right to properties, estate management, among others in Nigeria. To achieve its objectives, the Foundation supports legal practitioners in the provision of pro-bono legal services and seeks to create and improve societal awareness of the illegality and socio-economic consequences of the issues it deals with on the victims, perpetrators and the society.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE SOCIETY
Creating a fund for the provision of pro-bono legal services to vulnerable and less privileged members of the society.
Supporting the advocacy of legal practitioners in the areas of rape/defilement, women’s and widows’ rights, police brutality/extra judicial killings, and prison decongestion; specifically, for inmates awaiting trial, among others.
Establishing a Kenna Foundation Fellowship for deserving legal practitioners in Nigeria who have distinguished themselves in the relevant areas earmarked and identified for support by the Foundation;
Supporting the advocacy of legal practitioners in the areas of rape/defilement, women’s and widows’ rights, police brutality/extra judicial killings, and prison decongestion; specifically, for inmates awaiting trial, among others.
To create awareness of the illegality and consequences of rape/defilement, women’s and widows’ rights, police brutality/extra judicial killings, and prison decongestion on the victims, perpetrators and the society.
To do such other things that may be considered to be incidental or conducive to attaining all or any of its objectives.
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