CLEAR Kenya, Christian Legal Education Aid and Research, is a charity set up in 1999 by the Kenya Christian Lawyers’ Fellowship to help break the link between poverty and the denial of basic legal rights to the poor, particularly to ensure that even the poorest and most disadvantaged in Kenyan Society have access to justice.
CLEAR aims to achieve this end by providing free legal advice and representation, by training prisoners how to represent themselves effectively in court, by engaging in legal education for schoolchildren in their basic legal and human rights and by supporting a select number of public interest cases to encourage law reform. Increasingly, CLEAR is also helping to bring about formal mediation of family disputes as a form of Alternative Dispute Resolution.
CLEAR delivers these services through a network of offices in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu and Eldoret, a small permanent staff and the voluntary work of lawyers, trainee lawyers and law students.
In so acting, CLEAR hopes to give glory to God by following the scriptural injunction to “Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.” Proverbs 31:8-9 (ESV)