Janina Ochojska (born 1955) - 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. In 2011 Janina Ochojska was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
