On Saturday, 8 February 2025, Marcin Mycielski and Natalia Melnychenko, joined by fellow supporters of the Foundation, took part in a remarkable charity concert held under the patronage of the Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF). The event, organised by our friend and volunteer Grzegorz Madejski at the Municipal Centre of Culture in Zambrów, raised over PLN 7,000, which will be fully allocated to the medical treatment of two Ukrainian soldiers wounded during Russian shelling: Sviatoslav Boiko and Oleksandr Romenskyi.
The highlight of the evening was a performance by Czeremszyna, a folk band that took the audience on a musical journey through the rich cultural heritage of the Podlasie region, performing lively songs in both Polish and Ukrainian.
We extend our warmest thanks to Czeremszyna – and, above all, to Grzegorz for this incredible initiative! Grzegorz is not only one of our most courageous volunteers, who headed straight to the front line on his first humanitarian mission (for which he was awarded a medal by Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada!), but, as the evening revealed, also an outstanding vocalist. Congratulations on a brilliant stage debut!
“Here in the West, we often think that what truly matters to the heroes fighting in the trenches, in the mud, is military aid – the kind of support that comes from governments and state institutions. But in our conversations with them, they often share that what they lack the most is the feeling that they haven’t been forgotten. That their neighbours in Poland, and citizens of Western democracies, remember their sacrifice – that they know these people are fighting not just for their own freedom and security, but for ours as well. They fight so that we don’t have to,” said Marcin Mycielski from the stage.
Let’s show them they are not forgotten:
In the media:
- TVP3 Białystok: Ukrainian Review (February 16, 2025)
- Zambrów.org: Charity concert of the folk band Czeremszyna (February 11, 2025)
