This floated past my LinkedIn. Seemed a good a time as any to cry.
Lidiya Terpel
Founder at Skyworker.ai🇺🇦
#formynewPolishfriends🇵🇱🇺🇦
"How can we help you?" – the Poles ask me without stopping. I have the impression that not only ordinary Ukrainians have a lump in their throat because of "I'm not doing enough." The same is read in your eyes, my new Polish friends. I want to tell you something as a Ukrainian:
You are doing a lot! I will forever be grateful to you for the little things that are usual for you, but for me, this is something much more:
.... when you can't find a pharmaceutical company with the necessary medicines for Ukrainians, and you get a video from a familiar Polish woman with tears in her eyes “Lidiya, look, we have gathered doctors from our city. They are already running around the city and collecting this medicine from pharmacies for you, and tomorrow we will make the first sending to the border.”
.... a free apartment from an investment fund in Poland, so I can get things together after a long exhausting way here.
... the exchange of my cash in hryvnias for zloty at an unprecedented favorable rate. I ask, "Oh, where is such a profitable exchanger? I will tell other Ukrainians." And the Pole replies, "Lidiya, in fact, I kept these hryvnias for myself and just gave you zloty. When it's over, we'll celebrate the victory for these hryvnias in Kyiv!”
... when Polish investors give you their own seats in office for free, so that you have a place to work.
... when a Pole offers you to stay in the house where he lives with his family, in the evening you receive a letter from his wife about how she decorated the house with flowers and is already looking forward to your visit.
… when they just find out that you like cocoa and you see it on your table in the morning.
... when your Polish business competitors exlain how to enter the local market so that your business can survive.
... when you arrive at a new empty apartment and the neighbors complete it with everything from furniture to shampoo in a few hours.
… when a four-year-old girl from Poland gives all her toys to my two-year-old goddaughter from Ukraine.
... when you see "JESTEŚMY Z WAMI" at every step.
My Polish friends! I want you to know that in gratitude for this, all my life, I will tell my relatives, my children, my business partners, in my performances on stage, "When trouble happened, the Poles helped me." And this warmth from the word "Polish" will be in the hearts of several generations of Ukrainians.
People of Poland! You are doing enough! Keep doing this further! There is no measure for goodness. Let's cultivate kindness because we have a common enemy - russia. And while our brave Ukrainian soldiers on the front line are defeating the new fascism, I ask you to help their children, wives, and parents in getting through these difficult times.
JESTEŚMY Z WAMI💙💛
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