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Andra Tully
Legal Program Coordinator
Soros Foundation Latvia
Krisjana Barona iela 31,
Riga, LV-1722
Tel: 371-7280641
Fax: 371-7283840, 371-7821251
E-mail: andra@mail.sfl.lv

Additional Team Members:

-Aija Augstkalna, Soros Foundation Latvia
-Sandra Garsvane, Latvian Center for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies
- Inguna Irbite, History/Civics Teacher

STREET LAW PROJECT COMPONENTS:

  • SECONDARY SCHOOL PROGRAM
    Two Street Law manuals are in draft form with new chapters being added on a regular basis. They will be available for high schools as a student text and teacher manual and for primary schools as a teacher's manual with activity pages for students.


  • PRISON PROGRAM
    The Street Law Manual for Imprisonment Institutions, a student text and teacher's manual, will go into draft distribution and field-testing this fall.


  • TEACHER TRAINING
    Trainers (6) have trained teachers and education administrators around the country. A large assessment project has begun with Ministry of Education and the Open Society Institute.


  • LAW SCHOOL CLINIC
    Law students (55) have attended Street Law-type seminars in the law school clinic in preparation to work with the Street Law program in secondary schools.


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