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The voluntary movement of the system of free legal aid during the large-scale military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine is replenished with new people. Students lawyers public activists social workers - representatives of various professions join the community of BPD volunteers.The Volunteer BPD project was launched by the free legal aid system back in February 2021. Before the war more than 350 volunteers cooperated with the BPD system. With the beginning of the large-scale military aggression of the Russian Federation some of them began to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to volunteer in public organizations. But at the same time new people are joining the BPD volunteer community.As of July of this year we had 356 volunteers with whom an agreement was concluded on the implementation of volunteer activities in the field of providing free legal aid and a volunteer certificate was issued. The number of volunteers is constantly changing and this is a normal process. The main thing is that more and more people are contacting us with the question How to become a BPD volunteer - says Alina Kolisnyk a specialist in legal education and the study of legal needs of citizens of the Coordinating Center for the Provision of Legal Aid.What do BPD volunteers do They help in legal education work establish the interaction of centers for providing BVPD with partner organizations communicate with united territorial communities local self-government bodies etc. Prepare publications about the BPD system and place it in mass media social networks etc. And also - they redirect people to the lawyers of the BPD system.This year volunteer assistants devoted more than 2700 hours to volunteering in the field of providing free legal aid. In particular 270 authors publications were placed in mass media and social networks. More than 2000 Ukrainians who needed help in solving legal problems were referred to specialists of the BPD system.Among the BPD volunteers are many new people who joined the community this year.Dmytro Ishchenko a student of the International University of Human Development Ukraine and a future journalist became a volunteer of the Right Bank Kyiv local center for the provision of BVPD. He got acquainted with the system of free legal aid as a child when the Brovary local center for the provision of BVPD helped him obtain a birth certificate in court.At one time specialists of the BPD system helped me. Now I want to help the BPD system become closer to every person who needs legal help. Because I know from my own experience how lawyers help people who find themselves in difficult life circumstances said Dmytro Ishchenko.BPD volunteer Serhiy Lankin who started cooperation with the Livoberezhny Kyiv local center for providing BPD already has experience working as a lawyers assistant is a member of the voluntary formation of the territorial community.Today in the conditions of a full-scale war on the territory of our country the number of Ukrainians who urgently need various types of legal assistance has increased significantly. It was this circumstance and the human desire to simply be useful and help in such a difficult time that motivated me to join the volunteer movement of the BPD system emphasized Serhiy Lankin. In wartime in contrast to peacetime the focus of the activities of BPD volunteers changed somewhat. Legal education is more aimed at forced migrants and participants in hostilities people who have suffered from war crimes need legal assistance.Daryna Petruk came to the Lutsk local center for the provision of BVPD with the desire to become a volunteer when she was finishing the eleventh grade. Now thanks to her assistance many forced migrants have already received high-quality legal assistance from the lawyers of the BPD system.
