Franak Viačorka: We have an amazing diaspora, but whining that everything is bad demotivates. We don't know how to promote successes
"Sometimes we come to a meeting, everyone complains: everything is bad, documents are not issued. Then you start digging: not a single specific case that could be taken and resolved."
Franak Viačorka. Photo: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's Office
"We have an amazing diaspora; it is absolutely incredible. And while previously people said: we need to learn from the Jews, or someone else – now everyone is learning from us, and we just need to build on this potential as much as possible." This opinion was expressed by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's chief advisor Franak Viačorka at the discussion "Political Advocacy: Challenges and Opportunities" within the V Conference of Belarusians of the World, writes "Pozirk".
According to the democratic leader's advisor, politicians, political structures, and Tsikhanouskaya's office itself "very often lack specific cases" for a particular problem.
"Sometimes we come to a meeting, everyone complains: everything is bad, nothing is being issued (for example, documents – NN). Then you start digging: not a single specific case that could be taken and resolved," Viačorka stated.
"If we have concrete examples, precedents that we create and solve, then it's easy to scale them up for the entire Belarusian community," he emphasized.
"Just whining that everything is bad is not enough," Viačorka believes. "If we keep saying that everything is bad and nothing is being resolved, we only demotivate both our partners and our structures."
In the advisor's opinion, attention should be focused on successes, but "we don't know how to sell ourselves, how to promote our successes." "I think that here [in Poland], following this conference, we need to package successful examples, promote them, and show them to other communities in other countries, where the Belarusian diaspora is smaller, how it was resolved. The cooperation of the office, for example, with the Spanish diaspora on the issue of recognizing expired passports, is an excellent example," the speaker declared.
In his conviction, results can only be achieved through cooperation between democratic structures, politicians "who open doors," and local communities. "If we act separately, we won't open doors or bring the matter to a conclusion," Viačorka stated.
According to him, resolving specific problems and scaling them up for the next year should become a priority.
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