Ivonka Survilla
Ivonka Survilla or Surviła (Belarusian: Івонка Сурвіла, born 11 April 1936 in Stoŭbcy, eastern Poland, now in Minsk Voblasts of Belarus, as Iwonka Szymaniec) is the current President of the Belarusian National Republic (BNR), the Belarusian government in exile.
After emigration through East Prussia, she lived in Denmark, France and Spain before moving to Canada in 1969.
Shortly after the Chernobyl disaster, Survilla and Zina Gimpelevich created the Canadian Relief Fund for Chernobyl Victims in Belarus (CRFCVB). This charitable organization provides medical aid in various forms, reciprocal medical staff visits between Canada and Belarus, food aid as well as providing health respites for children in various locations within Canada. In 1997, Survilla was elected to the office of President of the BNR Rada. Survilla relinquished her top seated role in the CRFCVB to ensure that there were no political overtones to the charity which could affect the Belarusian children from seeking health respites abroad.
She is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ "Prague Declaration - Declaration Text". 3 June 2008. http://www.praguedeclaration.org/. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
[edit] External links
- Official page on Belarusian People's Republic Rada website
- Ivonka Survilla answers questions (Belarusian)
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