Christian Lawyers Fellowship of Nigeria
Today in Nigeria, Christian and other minority religious, ethnic, and at-risk communities are challenged both by targeted violence by extremists and religious persecution and human rights abuses by security forces, including arbitrary arrests and detention, torture and inhumane incarceration, and denial of fair and open trials. Confronting this huge need is the Christian Lawyers Fellowship of Nigeria (CLASFON), a faith-based nonprofit organization for Christian lawyers and law graduates in Nigeria. CLASFON’s members engage in dispute resolution and reconciliation, the defense and protection of religious liberty, including pro bono defense of indigent persons in detention or outside undergoing trial, and assisting with the distribution of relief materials and securing trauma counseling for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Responding to calls for help, individual CLASFON lawyers take time off from their own jobs and pay their own out-of-pocket travel costs or borrow from their colleagues to drive throughout the country to detention centers or other places where prisoners are being held or sentenced. The money raised here will help provide the cost of gas and basic transport cost for four or more lawyers for an entire year.
Fundraising Goal: $4,000 (logistics support for one year for four volunteer defenders)
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