Respondents in the subsequent evaluations saw the main added value as raising awareness of legal issues and human rights at community level and enabling people to claim their rights from duty bearers, particularly in the areas of birth registration, inheritance, wills, children’s rights, general and customary law. The grassroots and participatory approach to legal education was hailed by community members as addressing real socio-cultural and economic issues affecting them and participants said they now understood they had the right to seek clarification on the decisions and actions of community leaders. As a demonstration of their support for legal education, community members took the initiative to cascade information to others by organising community gatherings, thereby building the sustainability of the work. Focus group discussion in Rutandare, Growth in learning is demonstrated by the following accounts. A Headman and Councillor in Marange observed that there had been political polaristion in their communities before the LRF’s intervention, but after learning about the Declaration of Rights and other basic human rights people had come to realise that it was possible to have different political views. This had contributed to more peaceful coexistence, tolerance and respect of human rights. Participants at a good governance outreach session in Mutoko learned that leaders had a duty to be accountable to those who had elected them and the villagers refused to contribute money towards the building of a community hall until the leadership explained what they had done with the money previously paid towards the same project. Immediately after an outreach session on child abuse in Mberengwa the case of a 13-yearold Grade Seven pupil who had been married with the consent of her parents was brought to the LRF’s attention. The LRF paralegal took up the case with the police; if it had not been for the outreach this may not have been exposed. 10 Legal Resources Foundation Annual Report 2015 Paralegal Nobuhle Majenda conducting a one day workshop in Ward 11, Inyathi A Gutu Councillor visited the LRF office during September to advise that villagers from Mawere community where the LRF conducted outreaches on child rights/abuse were making use of the knowledge imparted to them. A primary school headmistress had decided to punish pupils with outstanding fees by making them stand during lessons and refusing to allow them to sit their end of term exams. Women from the community had come together and reminded each other of what they had learnt from the LRF. They approached the Councillor demanding