As soon as the Russian invasion of Ukraine started, Yuliana Onishchuk knew she had to help her country. News coverage of the initial occupation of the Kyiv region showed that Irpin City and Bucha, just outside the capital, had sustained huge damage, and it was clear to Onishchuk that critical infrastructure would need to be repaired. “I saw the schools, and I was sure that we would have to rebuild them,” Onishchuk says. She saw an opportunity. “I realized: We have to rebuild them in a new way.”
Putting her expertise as an energy lawyer and solar power project manager to good use, Onishchuk set up an NGO, the