Community advice offices: straining to serve poor communities
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2014
TITLE AUTHOR(S): Y.D.Davids
KEYWORDS: POVERTY, QUALITY OF LIFE, RURAL COMMUNITIES, SERVICE INDUSTRIES
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/hsrc-review-sept-2014/community-advice-offices
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 8377
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/2229
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/2229
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Abstract
Paralegal advice offices face numerous challenges, but they provide invaluable services to improve the quality of life in communities, by providing legal advice, consultation, mediation and access with regards to labour disputes and many other services, and deserve support for full or part public funding say Yul Derek Davids and team.-
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