JANINA OCHOJSKA
Janina Ochojska (born 1953) - well-known social campaigner. In 1989 she opened a Polish branch of the Equi-Libre foundation, which provides humanitarian aid for people in need. Ochojska was a key factor behind the establishment of a Polish charity organisation called Polska Akcja Humanitarna, which provided convoys of aid to Bosnia and Chechnya; and also runs aid programmes to help children in need in Poland. In 1993 the European Commission awarded her the title of European Woman of the Year.