We believe that law is a tool for social change and that pro bono practice is the best way to realize our lawyers’ professional responsibility to society. For this reason, Miranda & Amado is a signatory of the Pro Bono Declaration for the Americas, driven by the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, to promote, organize and spread pro bono practice among the firm’s lawyers.
Thus, we are committed to dedicating 20 hours of pro bono legal services per lawyer in the firm every year, for the benefit of underprivileged or impoverished individuals and communities and the organizations which assist them.
Furthermore, M&A has committed to bringing pro bono work closer to law students with a view to fostering their awareness on lawyers’ social role. In this spirit, we launched the Pro Bono Challenge in 2010 with the hope of making this contest into a platform that helps to address unmet needs regarding access to justice, and advancing and enhancing the prestige of pro bono work among Peru’s future lawyers.
A non-profit civil association founded to promote pro-bono work in Peru. It aims to serve as a meeting point between lawyers and vulnerable groups and/or the organizations assisting them. To this end, Alianza Pro Bono fosters the provision of high-quality legal services.
Since 2008, Ankay identifies talented youths of limited means who are completing their studies in the public schools of Peru, granting them full scholarships to pursue undergraduate studies in the country’s top universities.
An association that provides free comprehensive assistance to cancer patients coming from the provinces and living in extreme poverty, during their treatment in Lima, Peru.
A non-profit association founded with a mandate to bring girls, boys and youths closer to nature and to empower them as agents for change by adopting and promoting sustainable lifestyles from their homes, schools and community.
An international non-profit non-governmental organization that seeks to empower societies to responsibly and sustainably care for the resources endowed by nature for the well-being of humanity. These efforts contribute to ensure Peru’s recognition of biological and cultural megadiversity as its main wealth and the application of this principle as a guide for its development policies.
A professional volunteer service in education that encourages individual social responsibility and seeks to inspire a growing number of children and adolescents to believe in themselves in order to achieve their dreams. Through a values-oriented education model, it develops capabilities and enhances talent in schools located in Peru´s vulnerable areas.
A non-governmental organization that promotes the flow of knowledge on the duties and rights of domestic workers.
A not-for-profit organization providing high quality surgical and medical care pro-bono to needy children and teenagers with heart disease in developing countries.
A foundation committed to improving the access of Peruvians to education, healthcare, water and sanitation.
A non-profit organization that focuses on helping young, low income women to become programmers and experts in web development, with a view to promoting their employability in the digital sector. It currently runs training centers in Lima, Arequipa, Santiago de Chile, Mexico City, Guadalajara and São Paulo.
An organization committed to improving the lives of women and their families through financial help, business training and primary healthcare. Pro Mujer has grown into a leading social enterprise that supports women across Latin America.
A growing network of farmers, foresters, communities, scientists, governments, environmentalists and businesses dedicated to conserving biodiversity and ensuring sustainable livelihoods. It is an international non-profit organization working to build strong forests, healthy agricultural landscapes and thriving communities through creative, pragmatic collaboration.
A non-profit organization bringing self-sufficiency to people in the developing world. It teaches families how to grow their own food, providing balanced nutrition through the implementation of a small-scale agriculture model.
One of the longest ongoing independent conservation organizations at the international level, WWF works in more than 100 countries across six continents. Its efforts focus on safeguarding the natural world, helping people to have a more sustainable way of living and to take action against climate change.
A non-profit association dedicated to promoting the adoption of abandoned dogs while raising awareness on their reality and implementing projects that contribute to build a better world for all dogs.
A social development organization dedicated to promoting and defending the rights of children. It serves vulnerable girls, boys, youths and families, fostering their development and self-sufficiency through temporary care in safe and secure settings, as well as the strengthening of their family and community networks.
With the aim of providing quality education and positively influencing Peruvian public education, this social organization launches collective building processes while encouraging information sharing with several other institutions to mutually learn how to improve educational quality.
A social organization that believes in the potential of all Peruvians and that all students deserve quality education. Therefore, it brings professional talent to the classrooms and offers different employment opportunities to enhance leadership and other capabilities of students, Profesionales Enseña Perú (PEP) and the community. Its goal is to teach in schools located in vulnerable areas of Peru and thus contribute to reducing the country’s educational gap.
A Peruvian non-profit civil association dedicated to researching, facilitating public understanding and promoting respect for rights and freedoms in digital settings. It strives to ensure that Internet continues to be a space free of government and private interference with the exercise of rights.
A Peruvian non-profit civil association dedicated to researching, facilitating public understanding and promoting respect for rights and freedoms in digital settings. It strives to ensure that Internet continues to be a space free of government and private interference with the exercise of rights.
The main source of financing for the development of Latin America and the Caribbean, IDB works to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, it helps to improve health, education and advance infrastructure. Its aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way.
Doctor Pun Choi’s shelter house for children with cancer located in Lima, Peru. Legally established and recognized by Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas – INEN [National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases], its main objective is to provide shelter and meals to children and women of limited financial means coming from several provinces of Peru to Lima, the capital city, to follow their cancer treatment. At present, Fuente de Vida operates in premises known as “Casita de la Paz” that can take in an average of 25 to 30 people, who benefit from three meals a day, comfortable facilities, laundry room, a recreation area and basic services, in addition to continued professional support.
A non-profit institution that promotes the development of the manufacturing industry, drives market economy and contributes to the development of Peru through economic, labor, tax and other technical proposals.
An international non-profit organization dedicated to preserving biodiversity and the natural environment.
The first institution in Peru to offer comprehensive assistance with a clinical-interdisciplinary approach for prevention, diagnosis and treatment in the areas of hearing, language, speech, voice and learning in children, adolescents and adults.
Since 1982, this non-profit civil association has been working in the field of audiovisual production and broadcasting, with the aim of strengthening social and cultural values. It is made up of a group of filmmakers and social and audiovisual communicators committed to promoting films as a tool for the cultural and economic development of Latin American countries.
An organization promoting inclusive societies that fully guarantee the rights of individuals with disabilities, foster equal opportunities and eliminate all forms of discrimination against them.
A New York-based non-governmental organization founded in 1999, with a view to delivering a clean planet for children. It works closely with donor societies, governments and other NGOs.
