$1 Million Aurora Prize Beneficiaries Announced

$1 Million Aurora Prize Beneficiaries announced (Source: Aurora Prize)

YEREVAN (Aurora Prize)””The $1 million award for the first Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity will fund projects in Rwanda, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Brazil, the press office of IDeA (Initiatives for Development of Armenia) Charitable Foundation reported on Friday.

The proceeds will support initiatives that are combating child poverty, advancing aid and rehabilitation for child refugees and orphans.

As Aurora Prize Laureate, Marguerite Barankitse ”“ founder of Maison Shalom and the REMA Hospital in Burundi ”“ received a $100,000 grant, and was offered the chance at even greater impact by being asked to nominate humanitarian organizations which would receive the Prize’s $1 million award. Barankitse chose her longtime partners: Fondation du Grand-Duc et de la Grande-Duchesse; Fondation Jean-François Peterbroeck; and Fondation Bridderlech Deelen. On August 18, those three organizations announced the projects they have chosen as recipients of the funds.

“The beauty of the Aurora Prize is the unique ability to share this wonderful gift with causes so close to my heart,”