Dominika Kulczyk appeals to business. “Heat became a weapon”

The full-scale war in Ukraine has been going on for almost four years. These are four years of heroic resistance, but also four years of destruction of houses and infrastructure, where winter becomes another weapon of the aggressor. Today, however, help requires not only heart impulses, as at the beginning of the war, but also systemic solutions and solidarity, including business. Aleksander Ogrodnik talks to Dominika Kulczyk, founder and president of the Kulczyk Foundation and chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of Polenergia SA, about how to combine these two worlds to give Ukraine real warmth.

Unfortunately, the war has been going on for a very long time. It's hard to even imagine that four years have already passed, right? When we see four-year-old children, we… well, we don't remember when they weren't there. And this war is truly the life story of many people. Also small children, women, elderly people, very often homeless today – says Dominika Kulczyk.

We associate the war in Europe with films, documents, books and the history of World War II. I still remember my grandfather and grandmother telling me about it, but it may be that people younger than me, my children, have not heard such stories at home. And suddenly the information that… that we were having a full-scale war on our eastern border was terrifying, he continues.

Aleksander Ogrodnik: Exactly, and this challenge, this domino effect, the fact of starting this systemic assistance out of this impulse of the heart, it seems to be an important task, especially for business. […] And the problem has become that it is not soldiers who are being attacked, but in fact ordinary civilians who are staying at home, mainly women and children, who, of course, cannot go to the front, are being attacked. And this is where the initiative comes in, i.e. “Heat from Poland for Kiev”.

“Energy is all there is.” I think we know this quote or this wisdom. Today, people in Ukraine need energy, de facto heat energy. The kind of energy that will help them heat their apartments, light up their houses, run hospitals, and allow them to simply survive. Because I think that right now in Poland we can be a little more understanding of what is happening in Ukraine, says Dominka Kulczyk.

You can listen to the entire conversation below.

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