NAMATI INC
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Mission Statement
Law is supposed to be one of our most powerful tools for advancing justice. Yet five billion people live outside the protection of the law. Namati and members of the Legal Empowerment Network advance social and environmental justice by building a movement of people who know, use, and shape the law. Together, we’ve achieved remedies that directly improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, and policy improvements that affected millions more.
About This Cause
For the past nine years, Namati and community paralegals have supported thousands of people to protect their rights —and the rights of their communities —by equipping them to know, use, and shape the law. Namati is the first and only global organization dedicated to legal empowerment. Working with legal empowerment tools, everyday citizens have stopped companies and state projects from polluting their water and grabbing their lands; prevented a national identity progam that would entrench ethnic discrimination; and demanded their rights to healthcare be upheld. Namati is supporting thousands of citizens to squeeze justice out of even the most broken of systems. And together they strive to translate the lessons from their grassroots experience into positive, large-scale changes to laws and systems. Namati also convenes the Legal Empowerment Network, the world’s largest network of grassroots organizations working for justice. They are learning from one another, advocating together, and joining forces to help all citizens know, use, and shape the laws that affect their lives. Namati’s work has been featured in/on Democracy Journal, Amanpour & Co. New York Times, the Guardian, WIRED, the Washington Post, among others, and has been documented by the Sundance Institute. Vivek Maru, Namati’s CEO, gave a TED Talk in 2017 which has been viewed over a million times. In 2016, Namati was honored with the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and in 2017, the Schwab Foundation named Vivek Maru and colleague Sonkita Conteh two of its Social Entrepreneurs of the Year. Namati has a perfect score, 100/100, on Charity Navigator and has earned Guidestar’s Gold Seal of Transparency. Since Namati’s inception they have received clean audits without qualification.