Currently the head of the Advocacy Programme in the EDUin organisation, Olga Žáková focuses on the issue of change in education policy in the Czech Republic. She returned to OSF Prague in 2013 to work in the area of equal opportunities within Let’s Give (Wo)Men a Chance. She had already previously worked here on programmes in the areas of public health and the support of Roma students. She has been working in the non-profit sector since 1992, for example in the Information Centre of Foundations and Non-Profit Organisations, in People in Need and in the British organisation Humanitarian Aid Medical Development, with whom she spent a year in Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 2003 to 2008 she was the executive director of Aperio civic association. She holds a degree in philosophy and biology at the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science at Charles University in Prague.
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