Ngaba ufuna uncedo lwezomthetho? qalisa

#MyLegalAidStory: Lee Hutton


Ithunyelwe nge-2 ka-Okthobha, ngo-2024
9: 00 am


Njengomfundi wezomthetho kwiYunivesithi yaseMichigan, Lee Hutton yakuqonda ukubaluleka kweenkonzo ezinikezelwa nguNcedo lwezoMthetho kubathengi bayo. Xa iNkundla ePhakamileyo yase-US u-Andrew Douglas wayetyelele iklasi yakhe yezomthetho, waphenjelelwa kakhulu ngamazwi akhe. UDouglas ubongoze iklasi ukuba ingalandeli indlela yezitena ezityheli ukuya kwiifemu ezinkulu zamagqwetha namaqumrhu, kodwa basebenzise iitalente zabo ukunceda abantu abangenalizwi namandla. 

Xa ubhubhane wahlasela, u-Lee, owayesakuba ngumnini-zabelo UMendelson omncinci, wanikela ngexesha lakhe kwi-Legal Aid Virtual Advice Clinics.   

“Ibingumdlalo ogqibeleleyo. Uninzi lwabantu abaludinga kakhulu uncedo kwimbuyekezo yentswela-ngqesho kunye nemiba enxulumene nomsebenzi,” utshilo. “Kwaye apho ndandiligqwetha labasebenzi esele lisidla umhlala-phantsi nelaliyazi indlela yokulungisa iingxaki kwaye lalinonxibelelwano nabantu ababenokuncedisa ukuzilungisa. Kuyavuza kakhulu ukunceda abathengi bajonge indlela yabo kwinkqubo, ukunika iimpendulo kwimibuzo, kunye nokubanceda basombulule iingxaki. ” 

ULauren Gilbride, iGqwetha eliLawulayo leQela lokuNgena kunye neNkqubo yamaVolontiya amaGqwetha, ukhumbula xa uLee encedisa ekuququzeleleni ezo kliniki ngokukhuthaza abanye ukuba bathathe inxaxheba. “Ungumzekelo omhle ngokwenene womntu oye waxhasa uNcedo lwezoMthetho ngelixa ekwifemu kwaye uqhubeleka nenkxaso ngokuthatha umhlala-phantsi,” utshilo.  

U-Lee angakhuthaza nabani na ocinga ngokuvolontiya kuNcedo lwezoMthetho ukuba anyuke kwaye azame. 

Ixesha lotyalo-mali—kwaye lisenokuba lincinane okanye lingaphezulu—livakala limnandi. Ikwasisikhumbuzo esicacileyo sokuba kunjani ukuba neengxaki zomthetho kwaye akukho zixhobo zokuzilungisa. Sinoxanduva lokwabelana nabanye ngoko sikwaziyo.” 


Uncedo lwezoMthetho luyabothula umsebenzi onzima wethu pro bono amavolontiya. Ukubandakanyeka, ndwendwela iwebhusayithi yethu, okanye i-imeyile probono@lasclev.org.

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