🎯 Let’s Make Legal Aid Make Sense (and Feel a Bit Less Scary)
Pro bono work has one major superpower: it brings people together — across differences, across sectors, across those moments when everything feels like a bit too much.
At FinUA, we know this firsthand. We started as a grassroots volunteer effort on 24.02.2022 and became a registered nonprofit in July 2023. Since then, we’ve helped thousands of Ukrainians in Finland with free, anonymous legal and emotional support.
Our pro bono legal model is built on one goal:
make it easier for good lawyers to do good work — without the chaos.
🧩 So, what’s the deal?
We connect lawyers with real people who really need them — no bureaucracy, no back-and-forth, no “what do I even do with this form?” energy. You get a clear request (anonymized, translated, explained), and you give us your take on the solution. We handle the rest.
We’ve already helped in over 600 legal cases — from family reunification and housing nightmares to “can I even stay here?” situations. And yes, we’ve done it all with a team of volunteers who are ridiculously nice. (We don’t know how either.)
🔁 Our Process (a.k.a. How It Works Without Driving You Nuts)
Step 1: People come to us — with real problems, not legal theory.
Step 2: We sort, simplify, and assign cases to the right FinUA volunteer lawyer.
Step 3: You get a clear request. No drama, just the facts, organized by a legal professional.
Step 4: You send us back a response. We pass it to the person. Boom.
Step 5: If it’s useful, we turn your wisdom into knowledge articles for the rest of the community.
No direct contact. No calls at 3 am (like really, nobody will call you). No GDPR nightmares. Just impact.
💬 Why Partner With Us?
- Because the system is hard — and we know how to explain it.
- Because we make helping people easy, even if the cases aren’t.
- Because we’re organized (but not corporate), human (but not chaotic), and kind of a joy to work with.
If your firm tracks CSR or pro bono activity, we’ll gladly provide reporting on:
- The number of cases your team supported
- Types of requests
- Time invested and impact made (we have our own impact measurement framework that helps us do that)
🔍 What Kinds of Support Do We Need?
We’re currently looking for help with real-life, high-impact issues like:
- Immigration matters (temporary protection, family reunification)
- Family law (marriage registration, custody)
- Taxation (cross-border tax issues, residency)
- Entrepreneurship (business establishment in Finland)
- Housing (tenant rights, rent disputes)
- Document legalization (apostille services)
- Representation-type support (when someone needs help acting on their behalf)
⚖️ Want to Help? You Don’t Need to Save the World. Just Answer a Question.
We’re partnering with legal professionals who are open to contributing a bit of their time — even just once — to help someone through a tough moment. No long-term commitments. No chaos. Just one clear question, one meaningful answer.