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Mrs. Kwaśniewska promotes voluntary activities and encourages others to help the disabled, the ill and the poor. She focuses specifically on children by trying to enrich their lives and improve their opportunities, as well as on promoting a healthy and active lifestyle and preventing disease, especially cancer. Mrs. Kwaśniewska herself initiated or organized a variety of remarkably successful national health campaigns (breast cancer, AIDS, heart disease, diabetes, etc.). Her Foundation aims to support all activities which initiate the process of cultural and civil change, providing people with equal opportunities to allow for their intellectual, professional and cultural development.

Mrs. Kwaśniewska has been very active in promoting the idea of peace
and tolerance in the world. She organized an international conference "Keep Children Smiling in the New Millennium" in Warsaw (1999) to mark the 10th anniversary of the UN General Assembly's adoption of the Convention of the Rights of the Child where the idea of the Rainbow Bridge Project and Schools of Tolerance was first launched.

Since 1997 Mrs. Kwaśniewska is a member of the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation which focuses on young adults with a mission to mobilize campus and community service partnerships by recognizing and rewarding the best practices in academic service-learning.

In 1998 she became a member of the Comité des Sages, established by the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr Kofi Annan, aimed at the development of a global plan to eliminate illicit production, trafficking and consumption of drugs.

Mrs. Kwaśniewska is a member of the Honorary Board of the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) which works to identify and co-ordinate a global network of organizations fighting child sex abuse and abduction.

Since 2007 Mrs. Kwaśniewska has been a Board Member of The Suzanne Mubarak Women's International Peace Movement. The association focuses on the positive and holistic aspects of peace, helping to forge alternative communication networks, developing capacities, creating avenues for cooperative action and making silent voices heard. The Movement's main objective is to enhance the conditions conducive to sustainable peace and human security.

In February 2008 she became a member of The Women Leaders' Council, launched at The Vienna Forum to Fight Human Trafficking, to co-ordinate action, forge new partnerships, facilitate access to resources and work to reduce the stigma for victims of human trafficking.

In April 2008 she become a Patron of the European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC), which works to change how cancer is viewed, how cancer patients are treated and improve cancer survival and the lives of cancer patients across Europe.

Mrs. Jolanta Kwaśniewska has been honoured with many national and international awards and decorations for her charity and humanitarian work and achievements, among which the most precious for her is the Order of the Smile - given by children for providing aid to children.

She takes interest in literature, theatre, music and fine arts, and likes to spend free time with her family. She enjoys travelling and sports, especially skiing, tennis and Nordic Walking.

Mrs. Kwaśniewska speaks English and Russian.