Raising issues of concern, Hopley Provincial Centre Bulawayo Gweru Harare Masvingo Mutare Total Cafés Planned 16 9 15 10 10 60 Female Male 173 75 194 81 134 657 118 120 180 101 167 686 Total Participants 291 195 374 182 301 1,343 Collaboration (2) In financially straitened times it is increasingly important for organisations to work collaboratively and not competitively, a methodology to which the LRF wholeheartedly subscribes. The LRF in partnership with PLAN Chiredzi successfully contributed to the protection and promotion of children’s rights in the Chiredzi community. As well as providing legal services, the LRF equipped Peer Legal Advisors with information on the Declaration of Rights, children’s rights, forms of abuse and child protection laws, with the objective of enhancing child participation in access to justice. In Mutare the LRF in partnership with Family Aids and Caring Trust (FACT) trained rural women in Nyanga on gender-based violence, birth certificates, inheritance, and empowered them to identify and report cases of human rights violations emanating from their respective communities. 15