The Olga Havel Award 1995 | Výbor dobré vůle

Jana Hrdá† was the laureate of the Olga Havel Award 1995.

The very first ceremonial awarding was held at the Lichtenstein palace on Kampa. The Award was handed over by Olga Havel personally. Additional program, led by Milena Vostřáková, included a performance of the band Bambini di Praga and virtuoso Jana Herajnová.

Jana Hrdá was born in Prague. She was originally a zoo technician. In 1978, she suffered a spinal cord injury and remained paralyzed for life. She fought for the right to take care of her two children Kateřina and František and with help of her friends managed step by step to organize her life and create a new home. After 1990, Jana and other wheelchair users established the Prague organisation of wheelchair users and began to organize courses of private assistance for the movement for the independent way of life in the Czech Republic. She took part on creating the social services reform in the Czech Republic. She was also one of the CoGW volunteers. In 1999, she published a biography “Lord is our Shepherd”. Mrs. Hrdá passed away in August 2014 due to long-term health issues.

Thanks were given for

Working at a foreign office of the Committee of Good Will

Lady Abrahams
Mr. Alan Coblence
Countess and Count Czernin
Sabine Gruša
M. Kamila Leclerc
Helena Leimgruber – Hájková
Katja Sprüngli
Jana Stromsnes
Oldrich Th. Uttendorfsky and his wife
Karel and Olga Velan
Olga and Robert Wister

Significant financial support

JUDr. Yvett Ajchlerová
Americares
ČEZ, a.s.
Madame Bernadette Chirac
Marie Jeřábková
Komerční banka, a.s.
Boris Korbel
Dr. Andrea Nater
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Sasakawa Foundation
Schering Plough
RNDr. Růžena Šavrdová

Relevant cooperation

Libuše Bauerová
Otka Bednářová
Marta Hrabovská
Huguette Maier
Marie Myšičková
Iva Taťounová
PhDr. Renata Wohlgemuthová
Karlheinz Woska

Outstanding project management

Miroslav Ciboch
PaeDr. Blanka Dvořáková
Jana Kratochvílová
Jan Lorman
Sister Akvinela Loskotová
Doc. MUDr. Růžena Tichá