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This is a disaster legal aid initiative with a legal empowerment perspective. We provide legal education and support to families and communities recently affected by Fiona. This program trains pro bono housing and just recovery advocates who accompany communities and also leads advocacy words to ensure equitable recovery. Since 2017, Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico has led disaster legal aid and advocacy efforts regarding recovery in Puerto Rico.

Impact

The experience of 2017 major hurricanes taught us that while first response is critical, hands and voices to amplify demands for assistance to repair houses, get temporary shelter assistance and have a just recovery. Disaster legal response is instrumental to safeguard the long term and equitable recovery of these communities, denouncing and acting against actions that discriminate or hinder access and by promoting the empowerment and permanence of social tissues.

Challenge

Amidst five years of hurricanes, earthquakes, the pandemic and multiple economic disasters, Puerto Rico endures a lack of access to justice and inequitable development crisis without precedent. Promoting legal awareness and empowerment regarding just recovery and access to assistance is a stepping stone to ensure that survivors and communities will not be displaced by catastrophes or by the institutional neglect of their needs. This program provides accompaniment to empower and recover.

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