WCLS focuses its legal services towards promoting community well-being and increasing community capacity to address legal and other social problems.  We prioritise marginalised groups by focusing on addressing the unmet legal needs of the most disadvantaged people in the community.  These target groups are:

• People on very low incomes
• People on income support
• Maori
• People from Pasifika communities
• People under 25
• People with disabilities
• Mental health consumers
• Refugees and migrants
• Single parents
• People over 65

He aha te mea nui o te ao? Maku e kii atu, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata.  -  What is the most precious thing in this world, I tell you this, it is people, it is people, it is people.