Svitlo means light. It is also what you say when you mean: do not let this go dark.

We started with one roof in Chernihiv and a borrowed van. The first donation was ₴2,000 from a parish in Lviv. The first invoice was for slate and nails. We photographed both because we did not know what else to do with the fear.

Four years on, the method has not changed. A condition survey. A costed scope. Local crews. Payment against signed works. Photographs at every stage. The file is public because the file is the product.

We are deliberately small. Twenty-seven sites is the most we can supervise properly with three staff and a network of site engineers. When we cannot supervise another, we stop opening files — not the other way round.

We work with Orthodox parishes of all jurisdictions and take no position in inter-jurisdictional disputes. We do not fund political activity. We do not rebuild a church without the community that will use it.