There turned out to be a number of women at the shelter who needed unofficial legal advice.
In Kenya, it has become an unofficial agricultural advice service, a community regeneration project and a job-creation plan all in one.
The movement, which operates in 30 countries, is far more than a tree planting scheme: it has become an unofficial Kenyan agricultural advice service, a community regeneration project, and a job creation plan all in one.
Ms. Mulvihill expressed relief at the end of the ordeal and gratitude to the many people — official and unofficial — who offered information, advice and support.
Unfortunately it's also true that there's a lot of unofficial and dubious quality advice from a cottage industry of self-styled 'GDPR consultants' that have sprung up with the intention of profiting off of the uncertainty.
The real threat to the government, the controversial rightwing unofficial adviser complained in his letter to the minister, was not his own advice but "the wall of officials" who were increasingly blocking his back-door access to the seat of power.
In 1976 Friedman defended his unofficial adviser position with: "I do not consider it as evil for an economist to render technical economic advice to the Chilean Government, any more than I would regard it as evil for a physician to give technical medical advice to the Chilean Government to help end a medical plague".
It marks a nadir for the gun-toting neoconservatives who dominated the first Bush term and for their unofficial champion, vice-president Dick Cheney, the stealthy advice-giver also known as "whispering grass".
Unofficial mentors provided a network of support and advice, a system that we have now formalized within our department.
Organisations such as mine know there is a real risk that young people will simply slip out of the system, leaving them no access to advice, training or jobs and making them vulnerable to the unofficial and criminal economy.
