Legal Extensionism for Neighbours gives legal and civic training to enable ordinary people access justice. The program works especially with financially vulnerable groups. It provides alternative solutions for common judicial problems through “a neighbor helps another neighbor” strategy, based on the constitutional mandate for every citizen to be aware of the law and his/her own rights and obligations.

Strategic alliances with public organizations such as city councils are established for support and continuity of volunteer work.  In each province, an NGO resolves the problems locally, while a Latin American network, created in 2008, facilitates access to the program, thus, national and regional impact is attained.  Regular workshops for exchange of experience and ideas are held for the neighborhood counselors.

Given the achievements in Mendoza, the program has been transferred to nine provinces in Argentina, and the ‘Centro de Promoción de Transferencia, Evaluación y Sistematización del Extensionismo Jurídico Vecinal, CPTES’, (Center for the Promotion of Transference, Evaluation and Systematization) established in Foundation PLUS in Mendoza.  The process has been adopted by organizations in Uruguay, Paraguay and Guatemala. This practice has succeeded in transferring to local, provincial and national levels – and beyond - due to its strategic design, structure and methodology.