Legal literacy or alternative legal education
Alternative legal education is necessary to popularize the law and the legal system and thereby reduce the monopoly by traditional law practitioners of legal knowledge, skills, and practice. Through legal literacy or alternative legal education, the sectors’ and the communities’ access to information on laws, rights and remedies is enhanced. The alternative legal education program also seeks to refocus traditional legal education towards a critical view of the law and advocacy for the needed restructuring of the legal system.
Paralegal formation
The program aims to equip women, workers, and members of the communities with the pertinent legal knowledge and skills. Trained individuals become paralegals, who are tasked to address the legal needs of their organizations and communities and thereby, lessen the latter’s dependence on lawyers. SALIGAN’s trained paralegals are different from the concept of paralegals in other countries, for these paralegals are members of the communities who are struggling with their rights and issues, and who are capacitated to use the law and legal system to their advantage.