saturday 11.09.2021, 13:15 - 14:00
Szymon Franciszek Hołownia – journalist, writer, publicist, TV presenter, social activist and politician. A candidate for the office of the President of the Republic of Poland in the first and second elections in 2020. President of the Polska 2050 association established in 2020 and founder of the party with that name. Founder of the charity foundations “Kasisi” (2013) and Dobra Fabryka (2014). He collaborated with “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Newsweek Polska”, “Rzeczpospolita”, “Wprost”. He also published in Catholic magazines, including in “Tygodnik Powszechny”. Szymon Hołownia was the program director and presenter of Religia.tv as well as the co-host of the “Got Talent” program in 2008-2019. In 2014, he founded the Dobra Fabryka foundation, which organizes help for the residents of, among others, Bangladesh, Mauritania, Rwanda, Burkina Faso and Senegal. At the end of 2019, he organized a civic fundraiser on Facebook, during which PLN 2 million was collected for the continued operation of the helpline for children and adolescents of the Empowering Children Foundation. In 2016, he was awarded the Badge of Honor for Merit for the Protection of Children’s Rights, awarded by the Ombudsman for Children. He was also an ambassador for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. He has received prestigious literary and journalistic awards, such as Wiktor audience (2010), Ostre Pióro (2004) and Grand Press (twice: in 2006 and 2007).
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