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Rehai Welfare Organization: Liberating Juvenile Prisoners

Osama Siddique, Zahra Hayat, Faraz Masood

INDUSTRY : NGO

AREA : Corporate Law

ORGANIZATION : Rehai Welfare Organization

LENGTH : 33

LUMS No : 10-005-2003-1

PUBLICATION YEAR : 2003

KEYWORDS:

Rehai Welfare Organization,Juvenile Prisoners,Law,NGO,Local,Free Education,Vocational Training,Government,Social Attitudes,Growth,Merge,Collaborate

DESCRIPTION:

Rehai, a small, self-sustaining local NGO, has provided free education and vocational training to juvenile prisoners at certain jails in the Punjab over the last few years. Rehai finds the existing penal and judicial system inadequate and the governmental and social attitudes inattentive to the predicament of juvenile prisoners. Rehai, therefore, is interested in further growth of its activities to fill the existing void. It is exploring the possibility of either extending its current services to other jails or of providing free legal aid to juvenile delinquents and helping to rehabilitate them after their release. The organization realizes that its current funding patterns, experience and human resources are inadequate for any meaningful growth in the latter mentioned areas. Meanwhile, it has recently received some offers for a merger or collaboration from other organizations working in the area of children¿s rights. Rehai has to decide what kind of growth it wants and at the same time look at the pros and cons of remaining independent vis-¿-vis merging or collaborating with another organization.

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Law