18 the children’s examination results were eventually released and the Registrar General’s office put in place a mechanism to ensure that affected children would be assisted in obtaining birth certificates at the district offices. ZLHR has maintained its interactions with communities in this area, and is currently working on ensuring that hundreds of families are not subject to forced evictions and internal displacement as private developers enter the area to work on commerical projects. ZLHR member Tanaka Muganyi offering legal advice to a client at one of ZLHR’s mobile legal clinics ZLHR Annual Report 2014 Mobile Legal Clinic Showcase: Siakobvu, Mashonaland West The Siakobvu area is located in Mashonaland West. The target community is found in the Nyami Nyami District. This area is severly underdeveloped, with poor road networks, limited infrastucture and perennial droughts. Siakobvu lies in ecological regions 4 and 5 (suitable for ranching and wildlife sanctuaries and not subsistence farming), with low rainfall. Hunger and the threat of starvation perpetually haunt the villagers. This situation has also resulted in increased levels of dependency of the people on those with political ambitions. Through its Mobile Legal Clinic initiative, lawyers provided human rights information to the community, particularly focussing on their fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution. Through testimonies and legal consultations, ZLHR was able to take up a number of public interest cases. These included litigation on behalf of children who had their results withheld by school authorities after the Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM) had failed to pay their school fees; children who had failed to obtain birth certificates because of the rigid requirements demanded by the Registrar General’s office, amongst others. As a result of the intervention by ZLHR lawyers,