Obama Will Donate Nobel Money To Charity

Obama Will Donate Nobel Money To Charity

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President Barack Obama will donate the approximately $1.4 million award from the 2009 Novel Peace Prize to charity, says White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton. The Nobel Committee awards the prize money on December 10 in Oslo, Norway.

We'll update with what charity or charities are the recipient of the President's prize winnings.


Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/1..._n_315770.html
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he's a good man.

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For instance

Dr. Denis Mukwege

Dr Mukwege had treated 21,000 women suffering from devastating gynecological injuries as a result of rape in Congo's brutal war. He is the only gynecologist treating these wounds in the country. ...Noticing that so many women had been sexually abused, he later founded the Panzi hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of thousands of female sexual violence victims have been helped so far.


or

Handicap International and Cluster Munition Coalition

These organizations are recognized for their consistently serious efforts to clean up cluster bombs, also known as land mines. Innocent civilians are regularly killed worldwide because the unseen bombs explode when stepped upon. Thirty-four nations are known to have air-dropped cluster bombs from the 1970s to the 1990s.






http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/who-were-the-nobel-nominees/article1312931/

Like it or not, he has change the image of the U.S. and had brought a more calm feeling to the world.

It never occurred to me that he should keep it.

Very smart of him, do not give the repubs ammo.

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or set up a scholarship for needy medical students, in exchange for their service to a poor community after graduation... a small price to pay for graduating medical school debt-free.