70PROCENT
In 2022, 70.2% of Polish households helped people from Ukraine. The data says how many. It does not say how.
/ THE PROJECT
The scale was made of single decisions.
After 24 February 2022, help started with one person deciding something. Take someone in. Drive to the border. Bring things. Send money. Translate. Organise. Within weeks it added up to nearly three in four households in the country.
70procent is a multimedia documentary about that effort. It shows its scale and records it from the perspective of the people who made it, before the details fade. Statistics show the scale. Memory shows what the scale was made of.
We are not only looking for big stories. One sentence, one photograph, one message from those days can say something no report does.
of Polish households helped residents of Ukraine in the first half of 2022
SOURCE: GUS, 27.10.2022supported taking in refugees from Ukraine in March 2022
SOURCE: CBOS, report 38/2022of households helped in Podkarpackie, the voivodeship on the border, in the first quarter
SOURCE: GUS, 2022helped in the countryside, close to the national average. This did not stop at the big cities
SOURCE: GUS, Q1 2022THE CALL.
TRAILER · 30 S · POLISHTHREE QUESTIONS.
People who helped send accounts, photographs, recordings, messages and documents from the first weeks and months. Every submission is read by a person on the editorial team. Nothing is published automatically.
What happened
Where were you, what did you do, and what did the help look like from the inside?
What you remember
Which images, conversations, meetings and emotions come back to you, years later?
What stayed
What did that time teach you, and does any of that help go on today?
ONE STORY, THREE FORMS.
Digital reportage
A website with selected memories, photographs, recordings and data.
Gazeta Wyborcza
An article with selected stories, photographs and a summary of everything that was collected.
Exhibition
Selected memories, photographs, recordings and objects connected with the help.
THE TEAM.
- Ewa Walas
- Jakub Górnicki
- Jan Rybicki
- Ola Długołęcka
- Michał Olszewski
- Ilona Kondrat
- Karolina Dziwulska
- Paulina Rosa
- Katarzyna Stożek
ORGANISERS: GAZETA.PL AND WYBORCZA · ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHS: AGENCJA WYBORCZA.PL
- 1 October 2026The site launches and the call for memories opens
- 31 October 2026The call closes: stories, photographs, recordings, messages
- Winter 2026/2027Every submission is read, checked and prepared by the editorial team
- End of January 2027The digital reportage, the newspaper piece and the exhibition are published