Even when a disaster seems only a matter of time, it’s still possible to succeed with a rescue.
“Impossible doesn’t exist”, said our founder Thinloth when she was just 23 years old and took on what appeared to be an impossible challenge — giving new life to the Pearl. To a building that for many at the time was already written off, a symbol of helplessness in the face of the ongoing degradation of Lower Silesia’s most beautiful monuments.
At that time the Pearl was on the red list of monuments in danger — every month could have been its last. The roof was collapsing, during rains and thaws waterfalls of water poured inside. The structure was completely rotten.
There was no big investor standing behind the rescue of the Pearl, no corporate or family backing. Only the passion and determination of our — at that time still very small — team. That passion was contagious, spreading the belief that it really could be done, that rescue coming from such a grassroots, niche initiative was actually possible.
Slowly, internet users began to believe. The Bolesławiec Municipality believed. The Lower Silesian Provincial Monument Conservator (delegation in Jelenia Góra) believed. The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland believed. And the Marshal’s Office of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship believed.
And the impossible stopped being impossible — it became probable.
Until finally that “impossible” turned into reality — a reality that makes the earlier lack of faith in the project’s success seem rather unwise.
Thank you all for believing in the actions taken by the Twoje Dziedzictwo Foundation, in our team, and in the Pearl. Together we can achieve anything!