Pavel Hrica

PHOmama

Co-founder, director, social innovator

The way out, o.z.

Pavel Hrica co-founded and leads the organization Way Out, which works to address generational poverty. He pledged to devote the rest of his life to this subject. The prestigious international network of social innovators Ashoka has selected Pavel as one of the 2022 Ashoka Fellows. In the past he was in the leadership of Slovak Scouting and helped open it to Roma. He then worked for 10 years as Programme Director of the Pontis Foundation. He ran corporate volunteering in Slovakia and managed philanthropic programs of dozens of companies. In 2018, together with his wife and former colleague, he founded Way Out, which after a few years became one of the largest non-profit organizations in our country.