A year has passed. The Gremi Personal Foundation team repeatedly raised the bar and achieved what seemed impossible. Read the interview with the Foundation's founder, Halyna Kyrychenko — she tells how, without any prior experience in running civic projects, we built an organisation that successfully helps Ukrainians.
Today, 90% of the Foundation's funding comes from Gremi Personal, with 10% from partners and donors. This distribution of resources reflects a key idea: the more people we employ, the more aid we can provide to Ukraine's armed forces.
Every złoty earned by workers in the office or at partner companies is one more fulfilled request for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. To stay up to date with our news and read the latest reports, visit the Foundation's website and join our Facebook community.
In this piece, we look back on a year of the Foundation's work — through achievements and emotions.
The first days of the full-scale war. The news sends chills down our spines. We take refuge in work, often staying late just to avoid being alone. We attend rallies, trying to draw the attention of the civilised world to the killing of Ukrainians, seeking an outlet for our pain and rage. It is emotionally devastating for everyone, but office staff try to help in any way they can. The help is chaotic at first, but no less sincere for it: we buy out pharmacy shelves, drive to the border, visit refugee reception centres, gather and spread information. Gremi Personal buses evacuate the families of workers from regions under bombardment free of charge, and we find housing for these people.
The beginning of spring. Ukrainians around the world unite to support the front and the civilian population. In the very first week of the month, we deliver a batch of equipment to defenders — thermal imaging devices, binoculars and radios worth 100,000 złotych. Gremi Personal in Bydgoszcz fills an entire bus with gifts (food, equipment, medicine, etc.) and assists with logistics.
In the first 6 days alone, we send
In addition to this aid, the first monthly report includes:
In that first month alone, the total amount of funds directed to aid came to 339,767 złotych. Even then it was clear: we cannot stop — our help is needed and we must act fast!
Work is in full swing — we search for suppliers who can meet our soldiers' needs. After several attempts and setbacks, we find a Polish manufacturer of tourniquets whose products are of outstanding quality and always in stock. In April, we deliver 4,000 cans of food to Ukrainian servicemen.
And heading to Ukraine, to a hot spot in the east, is an Easter gift from the Foundation — a Nissan Navara 4X4 pickup with a full tank and 120 litres of fuel as a bonus.
Just three months of intensive work — and we have already crossed the 1 million złotych in aid to Ukraine milestone. In 90 days of war, we purchased and delivered 5 off-road vehicles, 3 generators, 3 drones, 40 thermal imaging devices, 9 scopes, 32 radios, 6 pallets of medicine, 2,086 tourniquets, 1,025 bandages and 5,400 cans of food.
100 days of war. June is a month of trials, but we face them with courage. Volunteers transporting our humanitarian aid toward the Kherson–Mykolaiv direction come under fire. Fortunately none of them are harmed, but the vehicle looks like a sieve. The very next day they set off again to help the soldiers. The Foundation promptly provides the volunteers with a new vehicle — because we are unstoppable!
In June we buy some veeeery cool devices. For example, a Kestrel 3550AG weather station that is not even available for sale in Poland — we order the new model from Germany. We also acquire our first Starlink — there will be many more to come. We also send 1,000 tourniquets and bandages to Ukraine — tactical medicine always makes up a large share of our aid.
And June also brings a story with a humanitarian cargo. It started like this: we received 4.5 tonnes of aid from partners, and literally in one evening our lads managed to rent two vans, quickly load everything, and set off straight for the border. But on the way, one of the vans breaks down. The world is not without kind people — we find a tow truck. When the tow truck driver learns what the cargo is, he offers to deliver everything himself and tow the van for repairs later. And that is exactly what happened — our humanitarian aid arrived at the Ukrainian border as quickly as the circumstances allowed.
The middle of summer — the hot season of a hot year. Two more vehicles head to the front: a Mitsubishi L200 and a Volvo XC90. The latter was acquired with the help of our friends from Lithuania based in the United Kingdom — and the number of friends has grown considerably over the last five months! Of course, before sending them to the front line, we pack the vehicles with a great many useful things.
By July's end we have purchased and sent 6,011 tourniquets and bandages to Ukraine's defenders. The importance of tactical medicine cannot be overstated — every tourniquet is a soldier's life saved. Other July acquisitions are equally pleasing: a superb sniper scope we searched and waited a long time for (worth 15,000 złotych, no less), the first batches of tablets, memory cards and headsets for artillerymen in the Kherson direction (the second batch is in progress), as well as generators, thermal imaging devices and drinking water, which have become staples of our aid.
We find new ways to raise funds for the Foundation. The first Borscht Day in Dąbrowa Górnicza — thanks to every visitor to the event, we raised 4,029 złotych and used it to buy 201 tourniquets (201 lives saved!).
The next jeep for the Foundation was driven over by the drummer of the Ukrainian rock band The HARDKISS — Zheka Kibelev — and the beauty, nicknamed "Hardy", joined the fleet of our heroes. We deliver new gadgets for artillerymen to help them aim even more precisely and accurately. We continue working in the area of tactical medicine — alongside tourniquets, Israeli bandages and tactical scissors are heading to Ukraine. As well as binoculars, rangefinders, Starlinks, the 53rd thermal imaging device, and much more that is both interesting and urgently needed. We send generators to hot spots. The power outages in Ukraine and the subsequent surge in demand were still many weeks away — and we already had established supply chains in place.
11 September — the second Borscht Day, this time in Gdańsk. We raised 19,785 złotych for the Armed Forces of Ukraine; the Gremi Personal Foundation doubles this amount, giving us 40,000 złotych. With these funds we purchased 400 kits for defenders — 400 each of tourniquets, bandages and scissors.
Plus one more drone: new "birds" are always great! 20 tablets for Ukrainian artillerymen in the Kherson–Mykolaiv direction (Kherson's liberation was just a couple of months away). We carry out the largest single purchase of tactical medical supplies for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Foundation's entire history — 5,450 units. Overall, September turns out to be one of the most productive months since the Foundation began. We deliver 4 types of binoculars, rangefinder binoculars, rangefinders, thermal imaging devices, tactical headsets, tablets, memory cards, a Starlink, tourniquets and laptops.
We send the ninth off-road vehicle into service. We make sure the defenders are well fed and hand out a new batch of tinned meat for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The funds are collected from workers and employees of Gremi Personal, and we buy 1,500 cans of the highest quality.
On 15 October we join a charity event for Ukraine's Defenders' Day. The Gremi Personal team raises 1,300 złotych, while the organisers receive a combined 5,000 złotych. 2,000 złotych go toward tablets for a reconnaissance company, and 3,000 złotych toward warm clothing for soldiers in the Kharkiv direction.
Everyday matters in October include binoculars with rangefinders for soldiers on the southern front, and automated external defibrillators for military medics. During this period our forces are advancing in the south, liberating our lands from the enemy, and we purchase professional multi-tools for mine clearance specialists. October is also when we begin preparing for winter: thermal underwear becomes another priority. We place test orders for thermal socks.
The first 100 sets of thermal underwear are already with our defenders, and we are preparing several hundred more by the end of the month. At the Polish Entrepreneurs' Congress we raise money for Starlinks for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. November — the month of Kherson's liberation! At the congress, Gremi Personal founder Yevhen Kyrychenko takes to the stage holding a watermelon as a symbol of gratitude to Poles for their support of the Ukrainian army.
We receive requests for help from various sources and often assist the families of our workers. It sometimes turns out that soldiers asking for binoculars actually need a thermal imager, while those requesting a thermal imager dream of a drone on top of that. We take on every request — because our soldiers must have everything they need.
December — a flood of tasks before Christmas and New Year! As always, Gremi Personal employees get involved in the Foundation's work, putting in hours at night and on weekends. Regional offices, recruiters, regional directors and rank-and-file staff all pack, transport and assist.
In December, the Klub Przedsiębiorczości organises an auction and over two evenings raises 96,000 złotych for Starlinks for Ukraine's defenders.
An urgent order from Bakhmut — the unit needs a thermal imager, as the only one they had was destroyed. Standard delivery time to Poland alone is two weeks, but in this case we cannot wait. To speed things up, Gremi Personal Foundation Director Halyna Kyrychenko flies out and collects the cargo in person. We immediately transport it to Lviv (God protect our couriers!) — and our fearless volunteers deliver it to the soldiers' positions. The whole process took just a few days instead of three weeks. The soldier-heroes who liberated the Kherson region and are now serving in Bakhmut receive a new package from us: 2 drones, 3 thermal imaging devices, 5 tablets, a solar power system and a portable charger. And that is not all the "birds" — we send the ninth drone and order the tenth. In December two brand-new inverter generators also arrive — demand for them is constant.
A spectacular close to a difficult year — a Christmas tree laden with gifts. Starlinks, tourniquets and bandages, tactical headsets, multi-tools, drone components, computers, tablets, a printer, memory cards, scopes, thermal underwear and winter socks — say what you will, but this is the finest Christmas tree in Poland! It stood for a couple of hours, lifted our spirits, and then everything flew off to Ukraine to lift the spirits of our defender-heroes.
New Year — Starlinks from the previous batch are already at battle positions; we order new ones, and a thermal imaging device and a generator are already with the guys in Bakhmut. We are getting ready to send headsets, night-vision devices and Starlinks. The workload is not letting up — the front is intensely active. Taking stock — by the end of January the Foundation's budget for aid to Ukraine's defenders had exceeded 3.1 million złotych.
We admire the photo reports and are moved by the warm messages. Throughout the year the guys send us videos and photos, expressing gratitude for the Starlinks, drones, scopes, other equipment and ammunition.
We sent the anniversary — tenth — vehicle to the front. Before it departed from Gdańsk, children painted it, while the adults made sure the SUV would not travel empty. That is how we work — mobilising the efforts of young and old Ukrainians alike for the sake of victory!
The war will end — with our victory. And we will keep working, rebuilding Ukraine — for a happy and free future.
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