RUKWA LEGAL AID ORGANIZATION (RLAO) is the Non-Governmental Organization that provide, facilitates, share and expand the legal services; and recognizes the facts that poverty, technicalities of the law, delay in the administration of justice, illiteracy and unequal distribution of legal services are the factors that deny people access to equal justice in Tanzania and Rukwa region in particular. It was registered in 2009 under the The Non Governmental Organization Act.