Simon Panek

Simon Panek

The U.S. embassy in Prague has bestowed the Alice Garrigue Masaryk Human Rights Award on Simon Panek, director of the People in Need nonprofit NGO and one of its founders, in the residence of U.S. ambassador Stephen King in Prague today, on Tuesday, December 10, 2019. The embassy said Panek received the award for his contribution to the foundation, development and defence of the Czech civic society. Panek launched his charitable activities in 1988 when he, at the age of 20, organised a fund raising campaign for Armenia that was hit by an earthquake then. In 1989, he was one of the student leaders of the Velvet Revolution that led to the collapse of the Czechoslovak communist regime, but later he preferred humanitarian activities. In 1992, he established a team that provided aid in the war-stricken Nagorno-Karabakh. This team gradually developed in the People in Need nongovernmental organisation. The NGO has been operating in more than 30 countries all over the world, providing humanitarian aid, contributing to social development and helping to spread awareness. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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