Information, Education and Communication (IEC) Material During the year some 92,200 pamphlets, leaflets and posters were distributed in support of the legal education work. As a way to reach people beyond the communities that the LRF accesses directly, the organisation has begun to set up distribution centres for its materials. These are lodged with focal people in areas remote from the LRF’s offices. To date 57 centres have been established and although it is too early to assess the full impact, there have already been instances of clients approaching the LRF after visiting one of the distribution centres. Primrose, who was in a violent relationship for a very long time, was assisted with court papers for an application for a protection order after having obtained a pamphlet from one of our distribution centres in Nyanga. The order was granted. Joyce from Marange came with a case of sharing of property in an unregistered customary law union having gone through our pamphlet on Marriage and the Law which she obtained from a distribution centre. Her husband of 12 years had paid the divorce token and sent her away without anything from the property they had acquired together. However, through the LRF pamphlet she learnt that she could get an equitable share of the property which they had acquired together. The matter is being handled by the LRF and is pending alternative dispute resolution. Some of the LRF’s pamphlets 14

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